They should be comfortable with their long standing financial safety. THEY ARE SENIOR CITIZENS!!! It has to do with technology. Ever heard of tech stocks? Much of senior citizen financial safety hinges upon the stock market. Baby Boomers aren't necessarily Ted Kazinski types that abhor technology. Like I said before, the older members of society are using the latest technology for personal and non-personal objectives.
They are ill-prepared because they are becoming slaves to technology. They don't get out there and socialize. STICK WITH THE TOPIC!!! This other information has nothing to do with today's youth lacking an ability to communicate. They are spoiled brats and expect the world to be on a silver platter for them.
Knowing how to take photos with your cell phone and posting it on facebook doesn't make your smart but a new kind of consumer. Hence, my accusation that Corporate America is melting technology with that of culture. BTW, the most educational gains are from women and most of their degrees are concentrated in health sciences, in education, and in social sciences, most of which are low paying jobs. The job positions of today don't require a great amount of complex intelligence and decision-making. In fact, there is such a shortage of engineers, doctors, and nurses that many times they have to be imported into the US to meet the demand. Having an education doesn't necessarily mean that a person is fully educated in terms of quality. Much of the education in the USA is remedial in nature. Less and less people are obtaining degrees in the sciences in the States and prefer to work on liberal arts degrees just to "graduate with a degree." How is that helping the US to build assets? It doesn't take a degree to make a good salesman and that is what the USA has become, service industry concentrated. If Americans have become more open minded then why are neighborhoods and schools are becoming more segregated by race and by socio-economics? The public school has now become a daycare center for impoverished parents, whereas the well-to-do send their kids to expensive private schools. The newer generation doesn't care since many are still living in their parents' basement and have no aspirations in life except to play the latest video games or to upload silly youtube videos.
The faulty logic age metric died a long time ago after people realize that the Baby Boomers were aging which meant that the culture had to change to accommodate them. Ever heard of the new 30, the new 40, the new 50, and so on? The Millennials and Centennials will make the same mistake because that's the nature of human beings. We don't learn that well. One way or another Corporate America will figure out a way to sell their products to people despite the change in demographics and that is what the age metric is all about. Global Citizens? You mean the New World Order which has been around for a long time now. That's a Baby Boomer creation! The racism and the environmental denials will continue because events change but the mindset of power does not change. The new bad guy is now a Muslim but before it was the Communist. The new environmental danger are the gas guzzlers but before it was industry pollution. The death of Baby Boomers is just another era that will pass. There will be pros and cons for every and any group. These are some of the things that the Baby Boomers did for the youngsters:
(1) End the Cold War
(2) Decreased capital punishment
(3) Polio was stopped
(4) improved Africa economically
(5) Women have become more liberated which has increased the productivity in the USA
(6) Wireless communication has accelerated economic growth and promoted open communication
(7) Communism was dismantled. Communism killed millions of people.
(8) Disabled people can live normal lives and be part of the work force
(9) Welfare has been undermined
(10) Voyager I pushed humanity beyond the solar system
(11) The internet opened economic and communication boundaries
(12) The Civil Rights helped to promote social justice
(13) The democratization of the computer through creation of the personal home computer changed the world
(14) Mandatory seat belt laws have saved lives
(15) WWIII was avoided and all the millions that died during the Baby Boomer Age cannot be compared to all the deaths that occurred in WWII
(16) People can still work even after the age of 60
(17) The Golden Era of movies occurred in the 70s with some of the most iconic movies that have ever been made and that have changed culture
(18) Globalization or the interdependence between different nations and cultures was nurtured by Baby Boomers
(19) Baby Boomers apologized for a lot of things that went wrong, such as the Crusades, The Holocaust, Japanese internment, slave trade, racism, medical experimentation, etc.
(20) Environmentalism was popular during the Baby Boomer Age
(21) Baby Boomer music has impacted the culture for the good by creating awareness and promoting change and freedom
AND SO ON!
All women like successful men or men that can "pay" their own way in life. Shakes his head.
They live in such an exclusionary bubble that the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln or the man who saved the nation and who is considered one of the most thoughtful and rational men that the US has ever produced, actually nominated Donald Trump as its Presidential Candidate.
People naturally fight for their beliefs and should not readily submit because some Elitist or a group of Elitists claims its way is the most progressive. In the States, fighting for one's beliefs goes back to the Revolutionary Days when the American people proudly waved the "Don't Tread On Me" flag to fight against oppression from England. Ignorance occurs when you are willing to accept the status quo out of fear.
Your enlightenment sounds more like anger and hostility to me because your self-entitled nature requires you to actually do some real work than depend on social programs that are doom to fail. Shut up and get to work if you want the life that you want! Jealousy does little for productivity in the end.
Originally Posted by WolfWhistle
^ whatever it is you're smoking you can keep that shit to yourself playa. ;-)
***Newsflash*** if you have to write a thousand page book to defend an argument then you're clearly on the losing side of said argument. You defending old people's use of a PC as being technologically savvy is priceless. Ohh there's more to it than that? ok let's hear it. What you're doing is what most who can't defend an argument do. You're scatter brains all over the place trying to defend the indefensible. Baby Boomers royally fucked this country up and you can pivot to talking about jobs, women's advances, mixing up global citizens with new world order, etc, etc, and all your other copy-pasta from the interwebs

fact still remains (and I'm going to make your mentally lazy ass wear this around your neck like a mill-stone) jump in the Atlantic if you wish, but the newer generation has to clean up all of your fuck-ups. You highlight all the boomer generation has done positively but you've done an even greater amount of damage and it's the primary reason this Nation is in debt, suffering, and on straddling a very delicate line of recession and will be for the foreseeable future.
All the rest of that bullshit you posted is just garbage and to be honest not worthy of a serious response.
As for me being angry, hostile, or jealous of anyone. All I can say is Ha!