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.
https://media.tenor.com/VQ9-m-OYITkAAAAx/man-with-a-plan-you-need-to-stay-off-the-internet.webp
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good point
No one immigrates to the third world
Anyone moving back to Mexico?
Now that they have incentives to move back, they are. Until now, they only had incentives to come to the land of the freebies.
https://xcancel.com/keenanpeachy/status/1933909672505049386
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.
or maybe it's no longer practicing law?
as a bitcoin boomer, you must be more savvy that the others tho. i mean you're on SN!
I can figure something out technically and get all proud of myself, and then do a really stupid, embarrassing thing 10 minutes later.
I think that means you are self-aware, not gullible.
How about just human!
The Prince of Nigeria DM'd me
Well, well, I guess you just have to hop to and answer that offer of glorious riches for nothing! Isn’t it just amazing what the Nigerian Princes are willing to do for us poor folks? :)
He has more wisdom and life experience
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.
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?
Boomers and millennials
are we the goldilocks generation?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Stupidity isn't a generational thing, it's a human thing.
Not all humans are equally stupid
Certain demographics have lower intelligence than others
Look up William Shockley
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
It doesn’t look like anyone upvoted it! At least I am still seeing 0 sats.
You're being pedantic, but congratulations on your use of a dictionary.
go fellate yourself
Sure thing parrot
You are so gullible
I mean stupid
I actually feel bad for you lol. Have a good one retarded parrot, I think this is where our interactions end.
Why are you so passive aggressive?
GO FELLATE YOURSELF, STUPID GULLIBLE BITCH FUCKING CUNT DOUCHE BAG
Your attempt at being GK Chesterton or Oscar Wilde has failed
Try again
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.
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all gens are equally getting scammed on tech
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