Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Tim Dillon (Comedian): The Boomers Are A Selfish Generation And Gen Z Has Exposed Society's Scam!" video.

It's because the Boomers are still "finding themselves." Gen X is an afterthought. You're who'll be left holding the empty bag, when we Boomers kick off, but not before we've sucked you dry, left you worse off than we are, and buried in national debt, so we could indulge ourselves. We are the "ME" generation, and for all our high-sounding rhetoric, we've always been spoiled and selfish.
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@wesleystreet It's a weird kind of conservativism. Liberal ideals have been in place for so long, that they're the new conservatives. The same Church Ladies at the Methodist Church that clutched their pearls at us young hippies now attend Unitarian Church and clutch their pearls at anyone who isn't a socialist.
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The Boomers were given more than any other generation, and what did we do? We ran up the federal debt to $35 trillion in peacetime, because we are the ME generation. "Give ME free stuff! I don't care if my grandkids have to pay for it. Just give ME my STUFF!" What pisses me off the most is how pious my generation is about our fucked-up beliefs and behaviors.
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I took in this conversation in bits and pieces. I would take issue with the neo-Luddite resistance to AI. People have always pointed to the lost jobs due to automation. There was a big uproar when the first wheelbarrow factory* replaced the craftsmen who previously made them by hand. What happened? The society became wealthier. Those craftsmen applied their skills to making other products. And they developed new skills. What you're missing is two things: 1. When products become cheaper for all, all are enriched to some degree. 2. There are infinitely many products and services that have yet to be delivered/offered, for whatever reason. NEW services that need to be performed or just that people want to be performed. With the complexities of every day life increasing exponentially (seemingly), I bet there's a market for people who do nothing but organize things for other people, and handle some of those details for people. Personal trainers/advisors/assistants. Even gasp entertainers and comedians! Does anybody think there are too many people and too few jobs for people to do? If so, they're deluded. There will always be un-met needs of some sort, and therefore always new niches to occupy in an ever-evolving workplace. Are we crying because there's no longer a shoe-maker on every block? Were people really sad when the horse-plow was invented, or when the horse was replaced by a much cleaner and easy-to-maintain motorized tractor? *Actually, I think this was a parable told by Eisenhower when people were bemoaning the fact that assembly lines were replacing skilled workers.
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