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In a (rare for me) defense of Boomers, goddamn, the one dude I knew who learned COBOL on his GI Bill out of Vietnam...
that man was a fucking wizard.
He actually cackled to me when he told me how C Suite knew he was retiring in 6 months, they were not planning on hiring a replacement for him... he was planning on being hired back as a contractor within 2 years, seeing as he personally built the company's entire transaction accounting payroll and billing systems in the mid 70s, and no one else had any idea how any of it worked.
... For an international logistics company, with over 100 offices all over the world.
But yes, the rest of the Boomers csn go back to Minions memes and being catfished by AI Brad Pitt or whatever it is they do these days on the 'puter.
We often forget that half the boomers were the hippies, pioneers of the Internet, and activist that got the civil rights act passed.
Hot take but the hippies fucking sucked and I absolutely despise the entire movement. They had no political message, no demands, no way of achieving their goals, and were an entire movement based on vibes alone. The 70s was a time of great economic upheaval and there was a real chance that things could change, that we could have became a more progressive society, even revolution was possible, but then the hippies came and channeled the revolutionary energy of an entire generation into doing fuck all. Quite frankly I feel the same about the no kings protest today, an entire movement based on vibes with no plans of accomplishing anything.
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