BrazosDog02 said:

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Lol.

When the boomers die off we'll be left with people that make better decisions and efficiently deal with problems instead o pushing them off on someone else or doing it the old way. We should all welcome the boomer way croaking. The sooner the better.

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LOL

And this is supposed to be a crisis era (Winter), and it is.

Saecular Spring should start in 3-5 years...

Sharpshooter said:

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BrazosDog02 said:

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Lol.

When the boomers die off we'll be left with people that make better decisions and efficiently deal with problems instead o pushing them off on someone else or doing it the old way. We should all welcome the boomer way croaking. The sooner the better.

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LOL

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Lol. Yep.

BOOMERS: why all those young kids only working until 3pm?


Uh…because they do more work in 14 hours than you do all week? You guys are paid to do a job, not keep a chair warm for an allotted time. Hahahaha.

I love my boomers though. They are old and crotchety. I like that.

boomer on social security said:

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First Boomers steal your money and the will to live then ChatGpt is gonna steal your jobs, damn thats a rough life.

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Aren't pretty much all of those jobs posted on the OP tweets protected Union jobs?

AKA, jobs with a severe and strict barrier to entry?

This is WAY overblown

The US has very favorable demographics by the standards of modern western economic powers, we have a MASSIVE generation of young workers (millenials, nearly all of whom are still under age 40), we have the most favorable geography of any global power in human history, we can create a supply chain tied ENTIRELY to the North American continent if we really wanted/needed to and we have generations of moderately skilled, cheap production directly to our south from the nation most favorably set up to benefit off the impending collapse of the CCP.

We're gonna have some rough years over the next decade or two for sure, but America will be MUCH stronger relative to the rest of the world than we are today by 2040.

Also, it's a complete myth that the baby boomer generation has this massive set of still needed hands on technical skills that generation X and millenials lack. The useful skills are still in abundance, it's simply that boomers have certain skills that are no longer needed due to technological advancement or simply the aging out of old methods and they perceive the phasing out of these skills as a lack of competence in younger workers. Meanwhile, millenials can do almost all of the meaningful things in half the time.

The only real problems with all the baby boomers retiring is one, the strain they will put on the social welfare programs and two, the fact that Gen X is so small and will leave a hole in the workforce for 5-10 years until the much larger millennial generation reaches the point in their careers where they can assume the roles left open by boomers and incompletely filled by Gen X.

Gen X got a bit of a raw deal because while they will be in high demand, they lag behind the millenials in most technological skills and will often be passed up by younger workers in what should be their prime earning years.

AgBQ-00 said:

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Anyone else grow up holding the flashlight or fetching tools for their dad as they wrenched on the family car/truck? That happens very rarely now. One, people don't know how to do it and two, the cars are more tech driven than mechanically driven now. This creates younger generations that don't think or wonder how everything fits together and work so that the item runs.

The same thing happens in companies or countries that lose the expertise they have always had and now take for granted. No one knows how the logistics/mechanics of everything works because they take it for granted.

Look at the Artemis project at NASA. They had to start from scratch because all the people who knew how to do the Saturn V have been retired for so long and the corporate knowledge was lost.

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I learned how to cuss holding the flashlight for my old man. To this day I can't fix anything without going on an expletive laiden diatribe. Even when things go smoothly.

BrazosDog02 said:

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Sharpshooter said:

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BrazosDog02 said:

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Lol.

When the boomers die off we'll be left with people that make better decisions and efficiently deal with problems instead o pushing them off on someone else or doing it the old way. We should all welcome the boomer way croaking. The sooner the better.

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LOL

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Lol. Yep.

BOOMERS: why all those young kids only working until 3pm?


Uh…because they do more work in 14 hours than you do all week? You guys are paid to do a job, not keep a chair warm for an allotted time. Hahahaha.

I love my boomers though. They are old and crotchety. I like that.

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You sound like a really cool guy. And since I know you're probably not quick on the uptake. That was sarcasm.

Nanomachines son said:

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ATC personnel, pilots, mechanics, dispatchers... All facing major staffing shortages that they won't be able to fill with conventional hiring standards.

So those standards will be lowered. It's already happening, and we can see it in the increased delays and near-miss incidents.

— 🔺ʀᴇᴍɴᴀɴᴛ. (@remnantposting) April 12, 2023

Just this one sector of the economy can dynamite everything else if it becomes dysfunctional enough. Does your industry need supplies? Do they arrive via plane, train, or truck? 💀

— 🔺ʀᴇᴍɴᴀɴᴛ. (@remnantposting) April 12, 2023

It's a little late for this, but boomers should have encouraged their kids to learn skills that apply to these fields instead of telling them to get useless degrees in marketing, business, education, and art history.

Maybe big propaganda push on zoomers?https://t.co/M6Wis4v6wD

— 🔺ʀᴇᴍɴᴀɴᴛ. (@remnantposting) April 12, 2023

Also, many transit jobs (especially the technical ones like maintenance) pay great salaries.

The true problem is that boomers psyopped the younger generations into thinking that college was the only path to success.https://t.co/mTGWGv9KMM

— 🔺ʀᴇᴍɴᴀɴᴛ. (@remnantposting) April 12, 2023

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— Country Rubedog (@V_Floofdog) April 12, 2023

I know most of us Gen X and younger people don't want to hear it but Boomers are basically the last thing holding many many fields together. When they stop even consulting, it's more or less all over in many different fields.

This thread is a nightmare of what the future holds. There are far more examples of what's going to happen in that thread form others and examples of where we sit in other fields.

Boomers made plenty of mistakes to be sure, one of the major ones being not encouraging their own kids to go into the same fields they were in, but they are the glue that is slowly being eroded away from time alone.

I fully expect that we'll start seeing massive disasters throughout transportation, construction, industry, and more as shortcuts get taken and expertise goes down.

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I'm 52 and Generation X

back in the 1990s was always looking at the old people who had the directors jobs and government decision makers back when I was in my 20s and thinking how great it will be when they all retire as then I have no competition to keep moving up in my career

the USA is about to find out what happens when millenials are counted on to run the country.

LMCane said:

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I'm 52 and Generation X

back in the 1990s was always looking at the old people who had the directors jobs and government decision makers back when I was in my 20s and thinking how great it will be when they all retire as then I have no competition to keep moving up in my career

the USA is about to find out what happens when millenials are counted on to run the country.

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This country is likely to collapse before millennials achieve any measurable amount of political power.

Worth

Infection_Ag11 said:

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Meanwhile, millenials can do almost all of the meaningful things in half the time.

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I don't know about millennials, but Gen Z can make my coffee at Starbucks in half the time it takes me to make it at home when they are actually working and not on strike.

And if what you say is true about millennials it still takes a Boomer to tell you what task you need to be doing.

FrioAg 00 said:

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This hits home in my life.

I'm way handier than 80-90% of my generation when it comes to mechanical, materials handling, electric, etc.

But I'd be in the bottom quarter of the boomers. My 72 year old Dad still had to come help me with the really complicated projects I take on - I am constantly impressed with chit he just knows.

And I'm not going to start on the average 30 year old. We have done them a huge injustice.

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listening to alot of Johnny Cash on my drive back from the shore

he sings about stealing car parts for a Cadillac and then re-assembling them.

there is literally only 5% of the population left who would know how to do this

."Stigmatizing labor and telling everyone they are going to be poor and have a ****ty life is wrong and has been a huge factor in creating this problem. I don';t know any conservative businessman that thinks that importing cheap labor is the answer. The businessmen in manufacturing that I know want skilled, dependable labor and would happily employ skilled US citizens and pay them well, but finding those people is hard, in part, because otherwise good young candidates have been convinced that they have to go to college and get law degrees or their life will suck. "

....And government will give them unemployment, medicaid,foodstamps and/or they can go tom a local food back or take advantage of our social safety nets and get almost all of the benefits of working without doing a damn thing. The problem is moral not financial.