One good is… “Facebook did to our fathers what they thought videogames would do to us”.
They didn’t need the game, the greatest generation was already teaching them the slimy tricks
Case in point: monopoly was a game stolen by Charles Darrow in the early 1930s and sold to Parker brothers. The original game was “the landlords game”, invented in 1903 by Elizabeth Maggie, and was played with 2 sets of rules. One with fairly classic monopoly rules and one with anti monopoly rules that shared wealth. The point of the game was to illustrate how rent enriches property owners and makes tenants more and more poor over time. It was notable for being one of the first board games to be awarded a patent in 1904.
Monopoly was popular so Parker brothers later bought the patent from her to secure legal rights to the game. Their version obviously stripped away the messaging and solely focuses on greed and pro capitalist propaganda given that’s how they conducted business
They paid her $500 for the patent (roughly 11-12k today) and went on to earn millions from the game. She was furious they removed the messaging
Is Musk or Zuck a boomer? Oh shit, it’s the Gen X and Millennials I’m supposed to hate.
Every generation has good and bad people.
“Boomer” just means old person now.
Not when people are trying to divide people and make them infight. Cuz that’s what’s going on.
I absolutely agree.
What makes some tabletop fun is that they have a concept of “max hands”. It helps to balance the game and forces you to be efficient.
Boomers probably built the world we live in. Once the phones came, the ability to focus and do complex tasks evaporated, so I wouldn’t really say a bad word about their intellectually superior asses after all.
Me, a self-taught 25y+ IT wiz with hardware, software, networking, and programming
My parents, doom-scrolling fox news and asking me how to send an email
If I died they would slowly starve, absolutely helpless for anything beyond basic human function. “how do I open a pdf”, “why do I have 4 passwords for 1 website”, “I went to [domain 2] and it is different from [domain 1] and no it’s not because I clicked the first entry on Google” [spoiler alert, they blindly clicked the first entry on Google], “plex isn’t working, what do you mean check the wifi, I thought we had unlimited wifi”, “how do I check the home phone voicemail”, “how do I redeem cash back on my credit card”, “how do I order pizza from dominos”, “I made an account” [for a site I have a family account setup for already], “I paid for a year of a streaming service without testing the free trial and I can’t stream anything”, “why can’t we play [streaming service we don’t pay for]”, “why does this say ‘ad blocked’ when I try to click on this shady email”, “the home security system went off after I disabled the back door, went outside, then closed the door, then came back in - I don’t understand” [the system armed when they shut the door behind them, then came back in and boom], “why does this say I’m out of cloud space” [14 gigabytes of pointless emails]… And that’s just from recent memory! And this is a constant stream of basic things. I can’t even get them to reliably reboot devices before they are out of ideas. Literally helpless.
All boomers did was successfully take everything for themselves, and didn’t learn a damn bit in the process.
Your experience is not universal. My mother is a boomer and had to teach her school district’s IT guy how to work with Apple products. Usually she only calls me for IT sanity checks before she tries to fix something.
I never said it was universal - I gave a contrast to their own example.
Yours probably didn’t built anything then but mine left me like 5 milion in assets so I am pretty grateful for that kind of worldbuliding
See last sentence. “I got mine, fuck y’all lmao”
Well this money didn’t grew on the trees kid. It was made by building the world and services around us. They got what they deserved for working their asses off.
You don’t expect they would just give away their salary to some random person do you?
You yourself are probably well off considering your skills and hard work to acquire them. So is it not just? Is it not fair? This one aspect at least?
There is nothing more fair than egalitarian social democracy. Is it ideal in its western eu condition? Of course not but it works reasonably well.
It was a dream of my parents to live in liberal country with a free market and they made it happen after toppling communism. Maybe not personally but their generation.
Of course there are flaws and things that need work but it is an iterative process, not a revolution.
I live in best god damn place I could for the last 500 000 years since the dawn of humanity. I am sure going to be proud of it and grateful that I was born now and not in 1850s
Damn right, Poland it is. And we are just climbing and haven’t even showcased what can we do. What great things can we achieve without the yoke of tsar or Stalin.
Perhaps soon humans should venture into final frontier too. Even if a psychopath funds it, it isn’t less of a reason to be merry. Don’t you remember watching Star Trek awe and hope? It is still there if you only allow yourself to dream like before.
First paragraph: correction, it was made by fucking other people. That isn’t a positive thing, I should point out (I mean I shouldn’t need to point it out, but here we are). Taking advantage of others for personal gain is a terrible thing. Going back a comment, the fact that you are proud of this amassed wealth is deplorable.
The rest of your comment isn’t worth the time to read it.
They made it with their own fucking hands taking two shifts and then investing it smartly so idk what are you implying here
And even then if they did make some company, which they didn’t, they were photographers, then even then you would be wrong
What kind of exploitation photographers do exactly explain it to me lmao
I am gonna print it and literally put it above dinner table. “Photographer gangs robbed us from our future”
Mom and pop did all the work so you can brag online to strangers without punctuation. Got it. You’re setting a real good example of how not to troll.
If you want anybody to believe your AI written comments post a picture of your wealth and today’s newspaper. Or have mom and dad do it for you. They have cameras.
Get your photography mafia-related ass up outta here.
