In a (rare for me) defense of Boomers, goddamn, the one dude I knew who learned COBOL on his GI Bill out of Vietnam…
that man was a fucking wizard.
He actually cackled to me when he told me how C Suite knew he was retiring in 6 months, they were not planning on hiring a replacement for him… he was planning on being hired back as a contractor within 2 years, seeing as he personally built the company’s entire transaction accounting payroll and billing systems in the mid 70s, and no one else had any idea how any of it worked.
… For an international logistics company, with over 100 offices all over the world.
But yes, the rest of the Boomers csn go back to Minions memes and being catfished by AI Brad Pitt or whatever it is they do these days on the 'puter.
A few of you. The rest can barely operate a smartphone let alone do online banking, much less understand a phishing scam.
The problem though isn’t that people in general lack the understanding or capability to operate computers, it’s that we live in a society where continuous learning is not encouraged nor funded. Education is seen a means to an end, and learning isn’t seen as a way of life.
If the government either provided or paid for lifelong learning, things would be very very different. For example when new tech comes out affecting everybody, it should be encouraged to take a week or two off work, at full pay or paid for by the government, to stay current. But right now, only the wealthy and lucky few can even afford that.
Most of ‘us’ were street smart in our glory days and would not have fallen to the current day scams then. But even without dementia involved, our cognitive abilities degrade and our ability to adapt to changes slows down.
Unfortunately, your generation will get there too.
In a (rare for me) defense of Boomers, goddamn, the one dude I knew who learned COBOL on his GI Bill out of Vietnam…
that man was a fucking wizard.
He actually cackled to me when he told me how C Suite knew he was retiring in 6 months, they were not planning on hiring a replacement for him… he was planning on being hired back as a contractor within 2 years, seeing as he personally built the company’s entire transaction accounting payroll and billing systems in the mid 70s, and no one else had any idea how any of it worked.
… For an international logistics company, with over 100 offices all over the world.
But yes, the rest of the Boomers csn go back to Minions memes and being catfished by AI Brad Pitt or whatever it is they do these days on the 'puter.
We often forget that half the boomers were the hippies, pioneers of the Internet, and activist that got the civil rights act passed.
We forget that it was a minority of them. The majority is like every other generation: kept disinterested and selfish.
Well, we (boomers) actually invented the PC…
A few of you. The rest can barely operate a smartphone let alone do online banking, much less understand a phishing scam.
The problem though isn’t that people in general lack the understanding or capability to operate computers, it’s that we live in a society where continuous learning is not encouraged nor funded. Education is seen a means to an end, and learning isn’t seen as a way of life.
If the government either provided or paid for lifelong learning, things would be very very different. For example when new tech comes out affecting everybody, it should be encouraged to take a week or two off work, at full pay or paid for by the government, to stay current. But right now, only the wealthy and lucky few can even afford that.
Most of ‘us’ were street smart in our glory days and would not have fallen to the current day scams then. But even without dementia involved, our cognitive abilities degrade and our ability to adapt to changes slows down.
Unfortunately, your generation will get there too.
More of your generation fell for the scam that is religion.
My generation has 17 inch long dicks.
Especially the women! 😋