Every young person believes that they themselves will increase in wisdom as they age.
...yet they judge older people with disdain simply because of their age.
It's a hypocritical and hubris ridden perspective.
...yet they judge older people with disdain simply because of their age.
It's a hypocritical and hubris ridden perspective.
The problem isn't that older people don't care, it's that the older people in charge don't care.
Some of them would like to be and want to be treated as dictators and royalty.
But alternatively, sometimes people who are detached from a problem can do a far better job on it. And people who have seen a lot are better equipped to put things in context than those who haven't.
It probably doesn't do to think too hard about things like this. You'll just hurt yourself and upset your friends.
> In 2018, among those age 65 and older, voter turnout was 65 percent for women and 68 percent for men. In contrast, 38 percent of women 18-29 years old voted and 33 percent of men of the same age group voted. [0]
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[0]: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/04/behind-2018-u...
I've missed one major election since I turned 18, and it's because I was on internship 5 hours from where I could vote.
If you had simply googled it, you could have obtained your ballot in less than 5 minutes.
I'm 37 and own a house and stuff now, and move less, and change my drivers license when I do move. It's much easier for me to vote. I don't think about it in advance.
Why is it so hard to acknowledge that while it's not "hard" for young people to vote, it is slightly harder than it is for established middle age people?
I was born and raised overseas, and have spent my entire life embedded in many very different cultures.
I come from an ivy-league family (I'm the redneck engineer) that has been almost entirely dedicated to some fairly intense public service. Most of them could have become quite wealthy, but chose to do Service, instead.
I have written open-source software, for decades, dedicated to helping some of the most downtrodden folks on Earth recover from devastating personal circumstances. It has not made me one single dime. In fact, it has cost me many thousands.
And we're all pretty darn liberal. Being mixed up with dozens of different cultures all your life tends to do that.
My experience is that many of the younger folks in my industry are incredibly materialistic. I suspect that's par for the course. It didn't start with this generation.
Once we get a bit older, we may come to reflect, and discover that so many things that were of great importance when we were younger, don't mean diddly anymore.
As for my relationship with technology; I learned to write software that lasts decades. Almost every project I've ever done has been designed as a legacy.
I suspect that is selection bias. IT and programming have been reliable ways to make north-of-median-income for decades now, since the .com boom in the 90s. This ties in with the rise of the Bro Programmer meme for the same reason -- it's where you to to make money.
Hell, you're posting this on HN, which is the news site for a startup incubator -- which is ultimately about making founders and investors tons of freakin money. Obviously you're going to see a bias to getting that $$$ here
That's a bit sad. I do it for love. I absolutely love designing and implementing software.
It's nice to be able to make a living, but all I need to do is keep the lights on, while I do what I love.
That's a rare privilege, in today's world.