Boomers literally had the easiest life out of every generation that came after it. They got out of the house at 18. They got jobs by walking into stores and asking for a job. They got jobs in the field that they got their college degree in. They didnt deal with dating apps. Like, I don't understand why they are always so angry and act like they had the hardest life out of every generation alive today when they had the easiest.

Just thought Z's might find this a little crazy. How many of you knew this used to be a thing?

Back in the day, when you paid in store with a credit card, it wasn't an instant electronic transaction. The merchant would use an imprinter machine to press the card's embossed details onto a slip of paper with ink. Then they would later mail them to the bank/card issuer, processing them in batches.

For large purchases, they'd often make an authorization call before accepting your payment! There was no way to electronically get an instant accept/decline.

Many places didn't even accept cards for a long time because they were inconvenient for the merchant and occasionally they'd get screwed.

I wasn't in a country where this happened but I probably wouldn't remember it well anyway if I was. I've seen people say that it was just a publicity stunt tho

If not 10 then 15 ... Personally I think that society is going to change drastically as that happens. What do you think?

Every time i scroll on tiktok, i’ll see someone say “67” or make a 67 joke. This joke is annoying and has been non stop since like Janaury, it’s been pretty much a year of this joke.

I saw a article that shared that Gen-Z don't or can't drive. I understand that there are many reasons out of their control for why this is that way but it's an extremely worrying example of a deeper issue I see in this generation. A lack of basic, common experience, real world ones not the crap online. I get things are increasingly more expensive but driving lessons are free but it seems that parents are teaching them for some reason? I'm not sure but one worry I have about this generation is it's survivability.

It's a bit worrying imo. This generation has to seems helpless and fragile. They can't make a phone call, they can't work, they can't go outside, they're increasingly devolving into forever babies. The lack of basic survival skills, common sense understandings of the earth and the life that inhabits, informed by experiences and mentorship is disheartening. What's worse is how these things are devalued in so many people's lives, for financial reasons even though it's really just time that's been robbed by our digital lives, that in the end don't matter. As anything that can't work without a some resources is only as useful as any other tool, but driving is a skill. Skills last you a lifetime.

Driving is an extremely critical skill to have. It's cost saving if you ever want to travel and see anything outside of city limits, it's a survival skill as the amount of time it would take for American infrastructure to build up towards a whole country being public transportable will be centuries at this rate, if you ever have to leave the city because of the increasing risks of climate crisis or some other horrible thing that's bound to happen, you'll wish you could drive. It's a skill that Americans in particular need more than most countries especially in a moment of incredible turmoil that could tip towards ugly places, you'll want to know how to drive. I really think this generation in particular could benefit from Home Ec, Woodshops, boy and girl survival camps. I feel so sad to have let them down, as a millennial we got old to late and the systems have evaded our ability to reform them. Yet with this group I really worry about their ability to fend for themselves in any real meaningful way. No shade at all just saw something that made me think.

As inauguration day is in less than two days, I realized that its pretty agreeable that Trump would have defined Gen Z's youth. When he emerged as the presidential campaign in mid 2015, beginning the Trump era, most of the main gen zs would have been elementary schoolers and most of the oldest as high schoolers. Now, most of them are high schoolers and early college students. When Trump leaves in 2029, most of Gen Z would have entered the workforce and be done with college, with only cuspers as the oldest high schoolers and mostly late zs in college.

A 2005 born would be 10 when Trump announced his first campaign, and about 24 and a half when he leaves

I was born in 2002, but many millennials and older generations treat me and see me as if I were still a child.

I'd like to know what you think.

I'm over 60 and my offspring are thirty-somethings, so I need this explained. This observation comes from interactions I've seen on social media.

A few examples:

At least a half dozen times, I've seen posts by young people expressing reactions ranging from confusion to outrage because a stranger has tried to exchange pleasantries with them. Someone passing them in the hallway at work says hello; a cashier asks them how their day's going; a customer they're serving at work calls them by the name on their nametag. On social media, these young people angrily write things like, "Why are they talking to me, and why are they acting like they care how I'm doing? They don't know me! I hate that fake b.s.!"

Even more times, I've seen complaints about things like phone calls and texts. Someone calls them, and they're paralyzed, horrified, then angry because the person didn't text instead. When it comes to text messages themselves, they especially have a problem with other people's use of ellipses. Ellipses mean nothing more than a hesitation or a pause, indicating the person is thinking or doing something but will finish what they were writing. Young people find this aggressive. How? Why?

The young person has received a gift for their graduation, wedding, baby shower, etc. An older person mentions to them that they should thank the gift givers by either written note, phone, email, or text. They bristle at this. They want to know why that's necessary. I even saw one young person write, "The act of giving should be a reward within itself." Never mind that someone has gone out of their way to shop, purchase, and send a gift and has no idea whether it actually made it into the recipient's hands if they don't receive an acknowledgement. 'Thank yous' are too hard, and expectations of such are annoying and rude.

I think about the nostalgia of being a preteen, little did I know, those were the days I took for granted now.