Boomers created a world I have no intention or desire to live in and yet they want my respect.
Respect for what?
We have to tear down what you did and start over.
No you cannot have my respect.
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If Bitcoin is paired to $ it'll play out again because when it's at 50M, how's it different from boomer real estate
Boomers after they destroyed the economy, making everyone poor, and blaming you for being lazy
Just don’t expect it from the next generation when we get there. Hopefully we will have made it better for them, but they might have different plans.
If we succeed I will expect respect. If we fail I will expect scorn.
Money has been broken a lot longer than one generation. The American revolution wasn’t just about 2% tax on tea without representation. It was a byproduct of the British running up massive debt in the French and Indian War and needing to pay off fiat balances. I agree there’s a lot of entitlement and lack of awareness from living through a low interest rate environment but it will take a lot more global #bitcoin adoption and transaction volume to usurp the deeply seeded fiat system. Have to start somewhere and hope you all make a brighter future for next generations
Well for one, at $50M per coin, it would have a value about 2.7x the entire value of the worlds real estate today, lol.
This assumes they will value what we have built. Priorities change over time. I expect nothing from no one. I only wish we could live in a world full of free thinkers who want to do good.
They created nothing, they destroyed and whoever had the idea of tearing down stuff to start over always created just pain and desolation. And this generation will again be the boomers of the next that will blaim them for the situation and again and again. Perhaps one day people will learn that evolution is better than revolution. For the moment we are at it again.
An X gen (the opposite of a boomer) that witnessed the great revolution of the boomers destroying families and civilization watching the next generation doing the same. But we do not care because we do not need society. We are the best and when we will die we will care even less hahaah
Exactly. The main thing will be having again a society of people that mind their own business instead of trying to change the world and push their ideology over others.
These are not even boomers. Too old
All old people are boomers to me
Be aware you will be old too. What you give is what you get. People today are so short-sighted
And btw... They are getting this treatment because this is how boomers treated their parents. So.. as the universe rules
A few days ago during our innovation days, a genZ colleague held a presentation on what makes genZ tick.
seeing a 24y old having a keynote in front of 30 people including the two startup founders talking about how genZ just uses emojis differently and also copes with whatever lives throws at them with irony and memes, was fucking wild 🙃
when comparing generations they also forgot genX completely and didn’t know what it was when asked.
Blaming a whole generation on a problem is such a FIAT move
You are blaming one generation, when all generations, including yours, participated in regression of society.
"Everyone's quick to blame the alien." ~ Aeschylus
"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
~ Albert Camus
"History started yesterday."
*sarcasm*
Signed, Gen X
The boomers are the largest, richest and most politically powerful generation. The finger goes squarely in their direction.
It wasn’t the boomers. They worked hard bought a family home. Yes some benefited from their home outpacing less hard assets but they didn’t orchestrate this .. it’s a consequence of a failed monetary system. Blame the elites and bankers .. not a whole generation. Millennials and Gen X blaming ‘boomers’ is completely missing the point.
Generational relativism is actually the fiat move
Boomerism is a disease of the mind that needs undoing. So yes I will continue to blame them and create separation between the generations.
In nature we see that nothing ever gets destroyed, only transformed. How? By building something better and giving the old structure less energy. The bitcoin protocol works the same.
Lets spend energy on the new world, not on the anger about the old world
The blame of one age group is antiquated and personally, I see this as a trope resulting from a collectivist mindset.
I don't view the world that way, and look back to the fable of the frog and the scorpion.
It's my nature...
Been following you for 4 years now @HODL. You've become increasingly more unhinged and I'm loving every second of it!
🎯 you like my tools? Use em. You don’t like my tools? Go find your own.
This is me massively holding myself back lol 😂
When I think about how pervasive and insidious the propaganda was throughout their lives I don't have any issues understanding why things ended up this way.
They weren't suffering the consequences of it yet. We're feeling it now, but it's much easier for me to single out the federal reserve than our parents and grandparents generation for falling for the scam.
Need you to make a banger AI commercial of people no longer having a filter after stacking 6.15
Boomers are in their million-dollar houses, not nursing homes.
They vote in favour of tyranny and have reaped the benefits from inflated house prices, public sector pensions and social security.
As a boomer I agree with this statement .
The least we can do is own it.
No blame game, no justification - simply get on with awakening them. Unfortunately its like pushing shit uphill.
Understand, they believe the government will look after them and their assets are safe. They're the generation that doesn't talk sex, money and politics.
A recent widow talked about her will. Two kids have fleeced her. Asked what she wants to do. She's sold her remaining real estate and has turned it into gold jewelry for her last child, who lives abroad. No lawyers involved.
Bitcoin is beyond her. Gold bullion means third party custody.
I just listened - while she worked through the stock market, bond market, REIT market - and realized those were beyond her understanding too . She understands gold jewelry .
The upside to this - at least she wasn't buying Blackrock ETF's, which unfortunately my sister believes in.
Spent a life doing the exact opposite of what was common. Even more extreme the fact that I didn't do that trying to be special or different. I just did whatever my instinct told to. Sometimes it goes well sometimes it doesn't but at least I had fun and never worked 9 to 5.
You’re assigning that view to all Boomers? I can speak on behalf of the Boomers in my family, they worked hard, never “retired”, and gave time and energy to invest in the generations that followed them. I’m not sure blaming Boomers is the goal here. Sure there is a correlation (progression of time), but certainly not a 1:1 causation. You wouldn’t blame the 1800s generations for slavery, it was going on long before then.
I think I agree with Two Angry on multiple points. Largest and richest are relative terms that we’re applying to the most immediate history. Can we not say Ancient Rome or Egypt were equally rich and large relative to their world? Yet characteristics like greed and hedonism are just as pervasive today as they were then. It just hits harder for us today since we actually know some Boomers that are terrible people.
Yes to the majority of boomers. Your anecdotal data about your family does nothing to alter my view.
I don’t blame my parents … who are boomers and worked their asses off when they were young, to achieve ultimately a very modest retirement. What tools did they have to resist that ?
Choosing violence today? 😂
Just saying it like it is lol
Me: boomers on average are like this
You: I know a boomer who’s not like that
Me: boomers on average are like my parents
But they’re not
I agree to disagree. I’m not American, every boomer I know is.
Like my parents …. Not American 🤣
How would you have voted 40 year ago in the U.K ?
They don’t have critical thinking
The problems in the world are no particular generations fault but are cumulative ever since Homo Erectus staggered out of the rain forest into the Savannah and will culminate in Homo Sapiens destroying itself leaving room for a different species to rise to the apex with perhaps a better outcome. But all things come to an end after a few million years.
Stop whining like a little bitch.
There's no point in hypotheticals.
Here lies Hodl
He made it to 6.15
He loved his family
Hated boomers 😂
Based.
For sure. It is that, an anecdote. All I meant to say is that we’re speaking in generalities. I’m not sure that’s helpful, is it? (Not sarcasm, just a genuine question). If I apply negative generalities to another large segment of people, for example, white rednecks are racist… See my point?
White rednecks are racist though lol
imagine thinking being racist is a negative in 2025
🤣 when you condemn a generation you need to be specific about what they could have done differently.
Can’t tell if you’re serious or not…
You give boomers too much credit. A handful of people in the government, technology, and industry shaped the world we live in. The rest are comfortably numb.
Hippies had a good idea, but when they became Cocaine driven Yuppies, it all went bad. It’s not difficult to follow the progression in the music.
Nobody needs your respect
They should stop seeking it then
That's it
I think that's the meaning of the slogan "stay humble"
Boomers are the Id of the Open Society post-war consensus and this discussion does an amazing job bringing this out: