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Originally posted by Bilk22
reply to post by mikegrouchy
Remind me which generation X is
some epic timing, to be sure. not only was gen x right in the prime home buying years, but they were also young enough to be investing more aggressively than boomers wrt the stock market. same thing applies to the tech bubble. i'm sure many gen x'ers took a right cross to the jaw in 2000 with the nasdaq collapse, then got a knee to the groin in 2008. and it gets worse! gen x is a sandwich generation between boomers and echo boomers. the boomers took a hit too, so they will be hanging onto their higher level jobs with a death grip unlike any we've seen. then to top it all off, when and if gen x'ers DO get a taste of life at the top of the corporate ladder, hordes of hungry echo boomers will be right on our heels, peeling our fingers back, making us let go, and tossing us into the street in our 60s. and by that time, any ss/medicare benefits that exist will kick in at like 72+.
Originally posted by Krakatoa
Whaaa..whaaa...whaaa... Guess what?
I am tired of being blamed for your generations lack of success. You want a better life, MAKE ONE yourself.
I blame the boomers
Originally posted by mikegrouchy
Originally posted by Krakatoa
Whaaa..whaaa...whaaa... Guess what?
I am tired of being blamed for your generations lack of success. You want a better life, MAKE ONE yourself.
WE MADE THE GORRAM w.o.r.l.d..w.i.d.e..w.e.b
you friggin blame gamer.
All the tech that Jobs took credit for,
and died in all the wars that were never reported.
Mike Grouchy
Originally posted by Komodo
reply to post by mikegrouchy
I blame the boomers
well.. you can blame who you want but, the boomers just got their homes repo'd and retirement accounts ripped off.. and quite litterly in the last 7 years that I know of... by the corrupted bankers and outright thiefts of the IRA accounts..
if you haven't kept up on the news lately ..
Originally posted by Krakatoa
Sorry chief, you don't know tech history very well do you. The "web" was created at CERN, based upon the foundation, prior to that, the Internet. This was a DARPA invention (A govt entity) back in the 60's and early 70's, Ethernet, created at Xerox PARC, along with all the other personal computing base its all built upon. So, no your Gen' didn't create the Web, you used it, you expanded its use once it went commercial in the mid 90's, yes. You were also responsible for the bubble and crash that occurred later as well.
Originally posted by Komodo
well.. you can blame who you want but, the boomers just got their homes repo'd and retirement accounts ripped off.. and quite litterly in the last 7 years that I know of... by the corrupted bankers and outright thiefts of the IRA accounts..
if you haven't kept up on the news lately ..
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded -- here and there, now and then -- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as [color=gold] "bad luck" [/gold].
- Robert Heinlein
Originally posted by mikegrouchy
Originally posted by Krakatoa
Sorry chief, you don't know tech history very well do you. The "web" was created at CERN, based upon the foundation, prior to that, the Internet. This was a DARPA invention (A govt entity) back in the 60's and early 70's, Ethernet, created at Xerox PARC, along with all the other personal computing base its all built upon. So, no your Gen' didn't create the Web, you used it, you expanded its use once it went commercial in the mid 90's, yes. You were also responsible for the bubble and crash that occurred later as well.
So all those thousands of hours climbing towers,
running fiber,
aligning microwave transmitters,
and those thousands of hours
coding, programing, and scripting..
and then all those thousands of hours
retooling, learning digital,
installing cellular repeaters.
That all just disappears in a puff of four little letters C.E.R.N.
/you have no clue
Mike Grouchy
Originally posted by Krakatoa
Then what did you do with that money? "Invest" it in what the stock market???? Bwahaahaaa.... A fool and his money comes to mind if that's the case.
According to Mr. Xenakis, one needs to look no further than the fraudulent and corruptive culture of Generation-X
Paradigm that Influenced Gen-Xers to Orchestrate Ongoing Global Financial Crisis