Which generation is the most gullible? \ stacker news ~AskSN

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274 sats \ 63 comments \ @stack_harder 13 Jun AskSN

A while back i saw a meme (that annoyingly I can't find) with a parent telling a kid not to believe everything they read on the internet, and then, in another frame, the dad is saying something like ' Al Gore is a lizard'.

And I recalled my 75 year old uncle who believes all kinds of shit on the interenet, falsely attributed Morgan Freeman memes being the tip.

I had a 70-something Russian neighbour that I saved from pig butchering scams on at least two occasions; the guy was a magnet for it. Loneliness was a big factor.

Then media says young people are the suckers, believing any old bollocks from tiktok.

But really, you can't blame them, they are coming of age with ai that makes anything seem real, especially when your brain hasn't fully formed. But then the tech has changed so fast, I feel like the older gens' brains haven't caught up with it either.

Which gen do you think is the most gullible? Maybe we just all are equally gullible and subject to whatever eco chamber we're in, I feel the current middle-aged folk are in the sweet spot, but maybe I'm just biased.

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123 sats \ 18 replies \ @siggy47 13 Jun

I vote boomers being most gullible. I will fall for just about anything. It's age coupled with lack of familiarity with technology and modern culture.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @LibertasBR 10h

I agree, even though I think this is the most naive one. After the war, a lot happened and the golden era of peace and prosperity left everyone too comfortable to question what governments were doing. Still, what has happened recently is terrifying. People fiercely defend being even more enslaved, cling to shallow things with no factual basis, and socially condemn anyone who dares to think differently.

46 sats \ 8 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 13 Jun

Do you feel like people used to be more trustworthy than they are now? As a millennial (I think?) it seems to me that older folks instinctively trust others more than younger folks do, but I'm not quite sure why.

60 sats \ 5 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 14 Jun

It could be that we have moved from a high-trust society to a low-trust society and they older people haven’t caught on to that fact, yet. If they get burned a few times, they might hone their BS detectors by becoming more low-trust.

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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 14h

I have to agree with that. The high-trust countries I have been to have had very little mass immigration. However, some of the pretty damn low-trust countries have had not had any immigration, either. I think the migration is generally from low-trust to high-trust areas because the high-trust areas have that advantage in doing honest business.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 13h

Good point

No one immigrates to the third world

Anyone moving back to Mexico?

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nitter 14h bot

https://xcancel.com/keenanpeachy/status/1933909672505049386

60 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 13 Jun

I don't think so. I think there have always been con men and hucksters. I think as we age our bullshit detectors wear out.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 14 Jun

or maybe it's no longer practicing law?

56 sats \ 6 replies \ @stack_harder OP 13 Jun

as a bitcoin boomer, you must be more savvy that the others tho. i mean you're on SN!

30 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 13 Jun

I can figure something out technically and get all proud of myself, and then do a really stupid, embarrassing thing 10 minutes later.

46 sats \ 3 replies \ @chaoticalHeavy 13 Jun

I think that means you are self-aware, not gullible.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 14 Jun

How about just human!

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 14 Jun

The Prince of Nigeria DM'd me

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 14 Jun

He has more wisdom and life experience

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 14 Jun

I knew it!

I said boomers and milennials

edit: I thought lawyers are not supposed to be gullible?

Was Samson gullible or was it the hair?

32 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 13 Jun

Boomers and millennials

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder OP 13 Jun

are we the goldilocks generation?

8 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 13 Jun

Which generation fits the "Goldilocks" description? It largely refers to:

Late Baby Boomers (born late 1950s to early 1960s) Early Generation X (born early to mid-1960s to early 1980s) These individuals were young enough to be shaped by — but not complicit in — the old regime, and old enough to actively participate in the transition and rebuilding that followed major political or social shifts.

In Eastern Europe, the Goldilocks generation experienced the last years of communist rule as students or young adults, then became active participants in the democratic and economic reforms of the 1990s.

32 sats \ 2 replies \ @Msd0457890 13 Jun

I think the most gullible society or generation is ours. I'm currently 20 years old and there are all kinds of things on the internet, on social media, and in society. An example of this is just the system in which we developed, the Fiat system. Many of us don't realize it. Only those of us who have realized it have done so because of the awakening that Bitcoin has given us. Bitcoin has been the thing that took us out of the fiat system.

4 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder OP 14 Jun

probably younger people are more niave in general, just becuase of having less life experiance, but adding layers of ai into it to manipulate things for sure makes it worse. that also works well on older people that dont know the latest scams etc

as for btc, you're right. the legacy system does nothing to properly educate people about what a scam fiat money is and how it's destoryed so many things

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 16h

Between artificial intelligence and the system that wants to make you stupid, my generation is lost in an endless cycle: work, get into debt, and work to pay off your debt, while the little you earn is degraded and devalued,that's why Bitcoin is the only way to escape the madness of the fiat system.

50 sats \ 32 replies \ @Aardvark 13 Jun

Stupidity isn't a generational thing, it's a human thing.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 13 Jun

Your attempt at being GK Chesterton or Oscar Wilde has failed

Try again

0 sats \ 29 replies \ @Bell_curve 13 Jun

the question was about gullibility which is different from stupidity

Gullibility involves a failure in social judgment and trust, whereas stupidity refers to a broader lack of cognitive ability. Gullibility can affect anyone, regardless of their intelligence, and is often situational, while stupidity is typically viewed as a more permanent characteristic

Shame on those who upvoted your comment

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 14 Jun

It doesn’t look like anyone upvoted it! At least I am still seeing 0 sats.

0 sats \ 27 replies \ @Aardvark 13 Jun

You're being pedantic, but congratulations on your use of a dictionary.

0 sats \ 26 replies \ @Bell_curve 13 Jun

go fellate yourself

0 sats \ 25 replies \ @Aardvark 13 Jun

Sure thing parrot

0 sats \ 24 replies \ @Bell_curve 14 Jun

You are so gullible

I mean stupid

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 14 Jun

Not all humans are equally stupid

Certain demographics have lower intelligence than others

Look up William Shockley

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 14 Jun

I think it depends a lot on the origin, but not on the generation. Because information and experiences are what make you develop your mind to leave disbelief aside, and develop character, ability to question, malice, insightful cunning and many other factors. And those places away from where true information does not arrive, is where you usually find more people with a reduced mental capacity, and end up believing anything.

I think that an example of this could easily be, as socialism deceives the lower class, the working working class (the plebs) telling him "we will distribute the wealth" or the other classic. "We will remove the rich, and we will return them to the people" which is the result. mass people supporting these socialist policies, why? Because they are ignorant people, people devoid of information, and therefore credits capable of growing anything.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 14 Jun

How about being in a condition where you cannot talk with other people to correct errors in you reasoning. You might have to be alone, with no friends to talk to. I think that could be the case rather than age cohort.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @RideandSmile 13 Jun

May be old generation does not have a clue about tech (and so may be naive) but they do have a clue about how to cook, play without a screen, talk without a screen, be social ...