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Biology Lost's avatar

"Tik Tok" , "Insta" "Tweet" ..imho, it is no mistake these brand names underpin fast and fleeting measures of time as a way of life.

The attention span of a gnat requires no critical thinking.

Critical thinking, informed decision making, is nearing extinction. No one takes the time nor values the results of effort. Having the gnat** model constantly reinforced precludes it.

**apologies to gnats

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Ryan Kulp's avatar

this line: "Are you really proud of anything that was handed to you or you didn’t work for? Probably not."

while i agree, this helps make a case against* generational wealth. our instinctive desire for children to have better lives than us can indeed be taken too far. we even have a joke for it: trust-fund babies.

so i struggle to rectify suggestions like "make your kid's first home down payment, help them get a good job," when to an extent you're just settting them up with perks they didn't earn. that they can't be proud of.

i personally would feel 5-10% gutted for my entire adult life if my parents did either of those things for me. i wouldn't have felt this way at the time (22-25 range), but i would now (34 years old). i'm glad i had to struggle, and categorically for this reason i don't blame boomers for anything.

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