r/SipsTea • • 19h ago

SMH The advice didn't age well.

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u/Sea_Excuse_6795 18h ago

They are the most moral and fiscally bankrupt generation the world has ever seen

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u/Brassboar 15h ago

The "Me" Generation. As coined by their own parents.

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u/genital_lesions 12h ago edited 10h ago

So they're are also to blame.

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u/HighlySensitiveSquid 15h ago

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u/obsequiousaardvark 11h ago edited 11h ago

lmao the book written by the intensely wealthy venture capitalist who thinks that the real problem was Boomers who were any kind of sexuality outside of straight, married with kids.

Never use this as an example, this rich twat is looking to blame anyone but people like him.

He runs the Founders Fund (via Wikipedia):

The firm's partners have been founders, early employees and investors at companies including PayPal, Palantir Technologies, Anduril Industries and SpaceX. The firm's investments include Airbnb, Anduril, DeepMind, Rippling, Facebook, Ramp, Palantir Technologies, Polymarket, Pudgy Penguins, SpaceX, Spotify, Stripe, Neuralink, and Nubank.

Sure sounds like all the people making life shittier right the fuck now if you ask me.

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u/HighlySensitiveSquid 10h ago

Admittedly, I dont know much about the author- I just read the book. That being said, what's your point exactly? If youre trying to discredit him, then please do so on the merit of the argument, not ad hominem.

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u/BigBallsMcGirk 12h ago

5-10 years max.

And they'll be forever gone as a relevant political bloc.

Only worry is they'll burn it all down on their way to the grave.

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u/fishyexe 10h ago

They already are. There's a whole industry built just to take sick old people and keep them alive long enough to siphon all their assets.

Eat the rich y'all, they're already eating you.

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u/goth_duck_returns 5h ago

The youngest boomers are in their early 60s

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u/BigBallsMcGirk 5h ago

Those are more gen X.

Last year for Boomers was 1964, so young end is currently 62. The old end born in 1946 is currently 80 yeara old. The middle is already at life expectancy age.

They currently make up 20% of the voting population. Their peak was in 2007, and dropping ever since, with something like 11k dying every day.

They won't be utterly and totally extinct until like 2070 when the last one dies at 112. But they are increasingly less a share of the voting bloc, and will have less and less representation as their old ass reps die off and new blood enters political races, party positions, and the offices themselves.

They simply aren't going to be relevant by 2032 elections.

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u/ScottBascom 7h ago

I've heard of rome.