“Maybe it’s not that everyone’s angry. Maybe that’s just what the algorithm rewards. When I turn off the filter, people are funny, thoughtful, and strange again.”
“We clutch at identity like it’s the hull of the ship, not realizing the sea is who we are.”
- Unknown Author
Orwell’s Future is Our Reality…
Anyone ever feel like the police are the criminal element in the criminal justice system?
The pain of remaining the same should always be greater than the pain to change, if it isn’t it most likely means your perception of reality does not align with the actual reality.
What was the adjustment when taking into account confounding socioeconomic factors, e.g., job availability, job type availability, higher education costs, etc.?
I think HOLD’s point is demonstrated in the comments. Little acknowledgment of any responsibility for the past 40 years and loads of deflection of responsibility onto other generations.
Only one race is not allowed to care about the future of their people.
Can you guess which?
https://video.nostr.build/f002abd0314e2d2da36f97352580152244ce990b6ec32405c5fc5fd240adee16.mp4
Is everyone saying descendants of Europeans should live in Europe and descendants of Native Americans should live in America? That seems to be the natural conclusion from her logic.
Same, minus the chickens and insert bowling 🎳
My parents elected those politicians.
The Boomers are the first generation in recent history that has clung to power to the point they are dying in office. That is why we keep electing the oldest presidents ever.
It is not the responsibility of younger generations to make the older generations feel comfortable with letting go of power. If the Boomers take the approach of “You can have the Torch when you pry it from our cold dead hands” there will be repercussions. This was Dianne Feinstein attitude.
We are all responsible for how society turns out. The individual is responsible and so is the group.
If we don’t understand how we got here history will repeat itself. It is everyone’s responsibility to understand exactly what got us here and take action so that it doesn’t happen again.
We’re not talking about blame. We are talking about personal and group responsibility. Blame, responsibility, and accountability are three separate things.
The Boomers generation has a responsibility to pass the torch in the same way it was passed to them. But instead they choose to elect the oldest Presidents in history and die in office, as mentioned above.
Making a living on the internet is not a low skill entry level position with a pension.
Your argument that bad choices being a personal thing could be extended to your proposition that life has been hard for “many” in the Boomer generation.
The Boomers as a whole make bad choices that may be in their immediate best interests, but have long term consequences they do not fully understand.
The Boomers’ choices have resulted in an unbalanced government. Instead of a right wing and a left wing party we have a right wing and centrist party (thanks to Clinton and perpetuated by Obama).
The Boomers refuse to acknowledge group responsibility or personal responsibility. They are a generation that has manufactured their own suffering and now try to pass the responsibility onto the generations that followed them.
The only thing anyone is asking for from the Boomers is to step aside and pass the torch to a new generation, which they failed to do with Gen X, and now the Millennial for their turn. Meanwhile Dianne Feinstein refuses to step aside for a new generation and dies in office.
The Boomers had social supports, low college tuition, easy access to entry level positions at low skill jobs with union support that had pensions. They did work hard, but were also able to accumulate wealth by means that are no longer available.
They are also the generation that practically single handedly brought us Ronald Regan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.
The Boomers are not bad people, but that doesn’t mean they don’t make bad choices.
I like the part about smiling at the abyss.
That doesn’t address the low velocity due to the value of Bitcoin increasing.
If you have something someone wants for 10,000 sats, but it will only cost 7,500 sats in the future, that someone will wait. This behavior can be seen anytime deflation has occurred in a currency.
Bitcoin has deflation built into the design making it particularly vulnerable to deflation. Bitcoin is an excellent commodity like gold, but its ability to function as a currency is still in question particularly because of its velocity.
Though bitcoin could theoretically be high velocity people tend to hold bitcoin vs spending bitcoin, because it will be worth more in the future.
To be clear deflation is when something increases in value over time. Example of this are stocks, bonds, art, Bitcoin, etc.
P.S. I do use sats and own a small amount of bitcoin, so I am not questioning its functionality or value, but its velocity.