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2d ago
The salient difference is that children used to just kinda of happen to you in the course of living your life before contraception. Now children have to be deliberately opted into to a larger degree
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3d ago
I wasn't even completely joking like a ton of views on these topics in broader society are likely the product of a couple famous pieces of media, some garbled social media posts and a high school civics lesson
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3d ago
That's what 'pick a girl who's monogamous and tolerates the philandering' is gesturing to, though. I'd also imagine that even in top end tech circles that very few men have clout that transfers to instantaneous endless bitches in the way that an entertainment/athletic top ender has
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3d ago
People watch The Shawshank redemption and then Dangerous Minds and then set off to make a difference (TM).
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5d ago
There's two separate issues/lanes here. Some people are beneficiaries of public retirement spending at massive scale despite not actually self-funding their retirements and some are being accused of hoarding.
As a generational cohort it'd make sense for the elderly to do more to support each other via applying better means testing to program availability
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6d ago
I feel like the 70s equivalent still do fine on the aggregate though even if they don't teleport into billionaires. Just being a solid MBA type and pulling in 85th percentile income for a 30 year career is a perfectly good and stable life
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6d ago
That's the point though. Occasionally the economic fairy will come through and bless something to go from academic curiosity to instant megabucks then inevitably every university in the land will dilute the original credential to nothing
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6d ago
Yeah but like I'm sure there's a relatively niche employment spot right now that will turn out to be the big hindsight winner circa 20 years from now. AI researcher was a skilled profession 15 years ago but you weren't paid Lebron James money for the bleeding edge and there's now way more of a glitch of people entering the field.
But yeah there's a reason there's a meme with talking to 50 year olds in elite jobs now and getting 'I started my career at 27 after spending 3 years backpacking and getting turned onto this field by a newspaper ad after junior college' versus the new graduates being the absolute bleeding edge of filtering.
Hell my dad managed to get to a very senior offshore oil platform design electrical engineering position with 2 years before dropping out of a third-tier undergrad and a trade electrician cert. These things happen when you're born in 1949 and get in early on a field that ends up exploding in relevance
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6d ago
Who brought those laws and regulations in, exactly? Especially when scaled by modern travel infrastructure from nice to have concession to fairness to massive problem for young native workers
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6d ago
Laws introduced by the elderly out of some misguided social justice angles that take an enormous shit on the financial competitiveness of the youth, yes
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6d ago
That's lovely but we've decided to quadruple the population with immigrants to feed various political machines just before the UBI period hits. And we didn't even have the good sense of the Saudis or the Emiratis to make those admissions temporary and at our leisure
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6d ago
Onfield performance isn't the salient performance attribute for athletes, though. It's selling tickets/attracting eyeballs which also has its own massive disparity in ability by athlete.
If hypothetically the entire NBA roster at present were to vanish and be replaced by the next 400 or so best basketball players on earth how different would the entertainment product be? I can think of some sports where mid tier competitors produce a more compelling and competitive product than the absolute elite
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6d ago
What quotient of Boomer grandparents have made decisions to opt out of family obligations via fucking off to resort colonies or whatever, though? That was nowhere near as viable in previous generations
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6d ago
Why select for the one who has toiled at the current level for the longest without securing advancement
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6d ago
No they have not earned that retirement and I'd expect in the next decade or two of social spending reform that the expectation the boomers have for 20 years of unearned luxury communism will be adjusted until the elderly of 2060 will only get 5-10 years unless AGI ushers in luxury communism for all.
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6d ago
40/40 is retarded when the back half of that 40 is begun in way better condition than the historical norm after work that is far less physically arduous and then a suite of super expensive medical therapies are stuck onto the last 5-10 years of it.
The book can't be balanced for most people who aren't self funding
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6d ago
Yes and a lot of the youth today are toiling under the expectation the vast panopoly of elderly welfare that currently exists will have a machete taken to it long before they get there.
The current clique got on the right side of medical advancements and shifts in lifestyles that enabled an extra 10 years of lifespan without the retirement setup adjusting far enough to keep the books balanced.
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6d ago
I've gone from living in an Anglo every man for themselves culture to a more collectivist one and that changes the calculus at hand when the affluent elderly are actually trying to share the wealth constructively somewhat
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6d ago
Combining a 10 year increase in healthy living expectancy brought about by costly medical procedures that didn't previously exist with the greatest pace of technological advancement at the same time is gonna produce weird knock on effects.
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6d ago
How many hobby third spaces are going to help with kids, though. I like my BJJ gym but there's only a small selection with kids and it's mostly young professionals
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6d ago
Lot of this is hindsighting the previous generation's wealth accumulation methods. Stuff like Medicine is pretty evergreen but each decade or two the dominant forms of finance earning will shift violently. I used to work with a bunch of old Floor traders and that is a totally different skillset than modern trading.
There's also generally a hindsight effect where people assume the big trades of the past were bleedingly obvious since the people who hit them now have the biggest pulpit
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6d ago
Elderly didn't have the benefit of the modern medical infrastructure where you have a great chance of toddling around in pretty solid health at 70 compared to where you were. Look at the recent presidential stock.
Inheritances are coming later and increasingly past the ages that facilitate real meaningful innovation from the recipients. The laptop jobification of the economy means there's way more scope to just hold on to roles into dotage years.
Because children are less of an inevitable consequence of sex due to contraception the most attractive can play the field for longer and more efficiently, screwing incentives across the whole stack
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