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For a long time I could not comprehend the contempt for Baby Boomers. Now I realize it is just a backlash people have when encountering an alien presence.

Baby Boomers consistently increased the world's amount of everything. Especially knowledge. That's the feature that intimidates later generations.

becomes: For a long time I could not comprehend the contempt for Baby Boomers. Now I realize it is just a backlash people have when encountering an alien presence.

Baby Boomers consistently increased the world's amount of everything. Especially knowledge. That's the feature that intimidates later generations.

Ok boomers

As a boomer, I have to disagree. Our parent's generation considered us lazy, entitled, stoned hippies who would destroy the world they had worked hard to create. My grandparents thought my parents spoiled us kids by not disciplining us enough. The world keeps on turning.

This take is an odd one. The Boomers, if guilty are anything, are guilty of allowing their idealism to die off. Subsequent generations have fragments of ideals in all the wrong places for the most part. The big "sleeper generation" is probably X. They aren't boomers, and their work ethic is different entirely from that generation.

Fiat money made the boomers, fiat money destroyed the livelihood of subsequent generations. The foundation to continue building a better world was destroyed by boomers. They embraced paper currencies that steals, destroys, and kills the future of the subsequent generations.

Boomers are willing to transfer the knowledge. You just need to show the willingness to learn.

Although I agree all the way, and also believe that these "expert systems" will all fail, I have seen another pattern as well.

Whenever I get real deep into almost any subject I tend to find the generations before boomers far superior, especially since I'm always interested in really knowing how something works, how it can be replicated with as base materials and/or principles as possible, and also how you'd develop the skills while recreating its whole.

A good example is when I bought my first boat in 98, beautiful, super classic racing yacht from maybe the mid to late 1920's. Picture the archetypical sailboat.

Well, the fore part of the keel was so rotten that after the first season I literally used two hammers to pull it out!

I spent most of the winter going through all the pieces, how the forces would be absorbed and spread by the joints that were involved, how I'd recreate it, as well as asking around.

Come spring I got a huuuuuge beam of oak from a sawmill, I even think they cut the tree down for my specific order. When they loaded it up on the roof of my 61 Ford Anglia it almost tipped over haha!

When I got it on water it was all watertight and well, and after a while I got the "exam result": from the way the paint creased around the planking of the hull as well as observing it directly it was plain to see that the forces were now not concentrated around the mast, but spread evenly through the hull as intended :-)

If I'd gotten deeper into wooden boats by now I would have recreated a lot of old knowledge and procedures, of course aided by the internet in major ways. But this was before the internet really, although I was online by then of course, it was still a process of doing everything hands on, extracting knowledge from many people, but still trusting my self and that there would be old, missing pieces that I knew was there from the beginning, but which were forgotten.

When it comes to getting real deep into fields in this way I've found that the internet is a huge help in terms of sort of re-extracting things that were forgotten.

Another example is when I was totally immersed in photography from around 89 to 94, I got so deep that I started mixing chemicals from their basic component, even making my own weight that I could calibrate down to ~1/100th of a gram.

This took me thousands of hours, then later when I ran a shared studio space right after the GFC I came across equally dedicated people who were able to learn more or less the same in months, not years. All because they could meet equally dedicated people in all sorts of forums online.

I haven't got too much experience with the current crop of wild eyed enthusiasts, maybe they're few and far between, but there will always be some who go for deep, real learning!

And many will discover the same: to really learn you have to go all the way back to the very creation of the field you choose to do a deep dive into :-)

Also lots of the newer generations have been caught up in a safety first bubble and lost the common sense factor. My heavy equipment industry there is so many little injuries now that apparently weren’t a thing “ back in the day” also heard a good saying from the wise elders “don’t put your hand where you wouldn’t put your d!*k”

This isn't completely relevant, but I'll tell the story anyway. My boomer brother in law worked for 30 years building a construction/paving business. It was physically tough on his body. He decided to take a job as a trucker since he had a class A commercial drivers license and he didn't have the physical stamina anymore. Within a few months he was considered the top driver, getting his choice of truck and routes. I congratulated him, saying what a great job he did switching jobs at his age. He laughed and said he didn't deserve congratulations. He said " these kids in their twenties and thirties just don't show up for work, or they fail the drug test." The manager told him he never had such a reliable driver before.

I think it could be a cultural thing as well. If the young generation in america is unwilling to learn about the processes of boomers, in certain businesses, I'm sure they can outsource alot of that work to Vietnam, Indonesia or another developing country where they are hungry to work.