I’m a geezer but I have gamed almost my whole life - I just watched the technology change. It’s funny, most of my friends now are young enough to be my children or even grandchildren. What we have in common for the most part is gaming. My wife thinks it is stupid, always has, and thinks it is more appropriate to sit around with other geezers and moan to each other about our physical decline. Not me. I’m with these kids figuring out how to min/max our characters or rosters.
Anyway, I am FAR more optimistic about the young people than the Boomers, who are ineducable, passionless, weak minded and weak spirited for the most part. Boomers - and I am one, alas - are the ones who very nearly fumbled the ball.
Boomers with some exceptions have been mostly a cancer for America. Millennials will be the same. Generation Z and what comes after will be fantastic.
I’m looking forward to the Boomers leaving the employment market. As a Gen-X guy with some skills...I’m going to pump up my retirement fund to obscene levels.(for a blue collar guy) The beautiful thing is...I have almost no debt. I’ll have the house paid off in around 8 years, I have around 120,000 in equity on it right now, and the one car payment we have will be paid off in 4 years.
I might get a new pickup once that one car is paid off. If I do my low mileage 2006 Toyota Tacoma TRD Sport will get me at least 8,000 if not more when I sell it.
Generation Z has learned the lessons of Gen-X and seen the reality within the system. (The Red Pill) They were suckled at the teat of the internet and can smell trolls from a mile away. They love 4chan/pol, they love anonymous; Julian Assange has been their priest, and Wikileaks has been their temple.
As a old decrepit blue collar dude...watching this all go down...I can’t describe how satisfied I am right now that every single thing I told my fat, disgusting, communist, draft dodging, Constitution hating, dirtbag of a civics teacher...has come true. It’s fucking magic. The fucking CIA should hire me because I don’t smoke pot, I apparently can predict the future, and I’m rarely wrong on the internet.