Amazed & amused by people who talk about how tough it is for young people today. Even before housing prices spiked, you'd hear such talk. People who've never known what it's like not to have a magic gadget in their hand with access to the whole world.
Yes, but they're worried about ClimateChangeEmergencyCrisisBreakdown, prior generations didn't have that!
It's not like anybody in the old days lived through the Great Depression, WWI, WWII, the Blitz, fear of nuclear war, nope, there were no big worries for you old farts.
I admit this is totally unfounded rumour, but a bloke in the pub told me that some bloke in Cambridgeshire asked an estate agent if there was a free house lying around because he’d tried a shelf but it broke and he realised he needed a whole house for his vanity shelf. The estate agent said he’d been a bit naughty and bought all the unsold books he’d written to make it seem as if people had bought them…
Yes, I've tried (idly) to work out sone data but it's sort of tricky, e.g. you can say a smartphone is a phone, camera, GPS, Walkman, pager, Gameboy, fax, small TV, rolled in to one. But that doesn't capture the full value. I've calculated how much it would cost to own say 5,000 LPs or 2,000 DVDs but again, how do you value streaming wherever you are? And then there's the entire knowledge of the world at your command. The problem is, people born after the Tech Revolution literally take it for granted. When I've tried to explain that they are wealthier in many ways than the wealthiest person in say 1970, they just don't get it.
Amazed & amused by people who talk about how tough it is for young people today. Even before housing prices spiked, you'd hear such talk. People who've never known what it's like not to have a magic gadget in their hand with access to the whole world.
Yes, but they're worried about ClimateChangeEmergencyCrisisBreakdown, prior generations didn't have that!
It's not like anybody in the old days lived through the Great Depression, WWI, WWII, the Blitz, fear of nuclear war, nope, there were no big worries for you old farts.
I admit this is totally unfounded rumour, but a bloke in the pub told me that some bloke in Cambridgeshire asked an estate agent if there was a free house lying around because he’d tried a shelf but it broke and he realised he needed a whole house for his vanity shelf. The estate agent said he’d been a bit naughty and bought all the unsold books he’d written to make it seem as if people had bought them…
Yes, I've tried (idly) to work out sone data but it's sort of tricky, e.g. you can say a smartphone is a phone, camera, GPS, Walkman, pager, Gameboy, fax, small TV, rolled in to one. But that doesn't capture the full value. I've calculated how much it would cost to own say 5,000 LPs or 2,000 DVDs but again, how do you value streaming wherever you are? And then there's the entire knowledge of the world at your command. The problem is, people born after the Tech Revolution literally take it for granted. When I've tried to explain that they are wealthier in many ways than the wealthiest person in say 1970, they just don't get it.