Sweet Spot

peace out

Spend their retirement calling the cafeteria staff at Luby’s racial slurs and saying trans kids and drag queens are evil.

And voting for people that will make everyone's life hell and ensure that no one else will ever get to experience the quality of life that they did.
- Not to sound ageist, but I firmly believe voting privileges should be revoked when you retire.
- They didn't just pull up the ladder behind them, they have a ladder propulsion system that will launch it into space

I'm at least relieved to not have lead poisoning, for my gay brother to be safely out, and for my interracial marriage to not be scorned by the community.

Yet.
Kind of shows that time is a circle
- I see it more as a muddy hill. Only in the US some people have now shat upon that hill with the greasiest, nastiest shit so the slide is even worse on this length.
Honestly, at this point I'm just waiting for trump to bring back leaded gas.

Also flying to Vietnam for a government paid vacation when they were 18 years old.

A lot of boomers missed Vietnam as even in 1975 some boomers were only 11 years old
- Those would be gen X.
- Those from the actual baby boom right after WW2 weren't

Would have been nice if younger folks had voted in their own interests.

Why should they vote? No one is actually representing them.
- Because they don't vote...
  
  If your demographic is (correctly) viewed as being made up of nonvoters, then politicians are never going to pander to you no matter how much you whine online.
- Wonder why that is
Always someone else’s fault, never yours

Spend all of their own parents inheritance, leave nothing for their own kids, talk about how they had to work their way up from nothing.

And then bitch and moan when anything doesn't go absolutely perfectly in their favor.

I don't blame old people, they lived the best of times, their lives were comfortable because they were in a boom. They had high hopes, had kids with a bright future in mind for them, but things change, some see it, others are oblivious to it.

I 100% blame them for pulling the ladder up behind them.
- If the roles switched we'd probably do the same.
It's still fair to blame them. Old people blame young people for everything afterall.
- My parents don't, well not completely. They know the world be screwed up, but they also think there's a degree of responsibility on my part too. We are all stuck in this shit show together, and old people thought they'd be dead long before it got really really bad, but Trump SA'd the money, and now we all get to suffer.
  
  I'd keep friends and loved ones close.
it's not "things change" all the current mess was created by them in the decades after the time period of the op tweet
- A lot of the world's problems are generally made by the greed of mankind in general.

I would still take my life over my mom's. Things were not good for women back then.

Things can always backslide

I wouldn't call it peacing out, there's quite a lot of not-peace for that

What I like about this is that it doesn’t pretend boomers are uniquely evil, just the generation that got lucky.

Except that's not really the full truth either. The generation got lucky AND systemically burned every thing down so that they were the only ones left with all the benefits that luck provided.
- Any other people would have done that. Boomers are no different than anyone before or since. It is 100% Random Chance and anyone who disagrees is a liability.

Shoutout to our parents for hitting an absolute timeline sweet-spot. Drop in right after a world war, have a bunch of weird sex before HIV, buy a house for like 20.000€, start a family, retire young and peace out right before the ocean kills us.

They should be called generation G for hitting that sweet spot.

The future looks less bleak if the goal is not to live the life of that generation. There is AI, there are mobile phones, there is solar power and many more things.

When things are expensive, it means that few resources are used. This is good for the environment.

The big difference is that communication is free. We can talk to almost anybody in the world. This is still a huge untapped potential. That generation had a good life, but ours can be better.

Fuck LLMs and mainstream phones OSes
Communication is not free. Check your privilege.
- Compared to the past it is.
  
  India has shown that access can be provided to almost anybody. Not every country has the same access which I ignored because the topic is the future.