One good is… “Facebook did to our fathers what they thought videogames would do to us”.
They didn’t need the game, the greatest generation was already teaching them the slimy tricks
Case in point: monopoly was a game stolen by Charles Darrow in the early 1930s and sold to Parker brothers. The original game was “the landlords game”, invented in 1903 by Elizabeth Maggie, and was played with 2 sets of rules. One with fairly classic monopoly rules and one with anti monopoly rules that shared wealth. The point of the game was to illustrate how rent enriches property owners and makes tenants more and more poor over time. It was notable for being one of the first board games to be awarded a patent in 1904.
Monopoly was popular so Parker brothers later bought the patent from her to secure legal rights to the game. Their version obviously stripped away the messaging and solely focuses on greed and pro capitalist propaganda given that’s how they conducted business
They paid her $500 for the patent (roughly 11-12k today) and went on to earn millions from the game. She was furious they removed the messaging
Boomers probably built the world we live in. Once the phones came, the ability to focus and do complex tasks evaporated, so I wouldn’t really say a bad word about their intellectually superior asses after all.
Me, a self-taught 25y+ IT wiz with hardware, software, networking, and programming
My parents, doom-scrolling fox news and asking me how to send an email
If I died they would slowly starve, absolutely helpless for anything beyond basic human function. “how do I open a pdf”, “why do I have 4 passwords for 1 website”, “I went to [domain 2] and it is different from [domain 1] and no it’s not because I clicked the first entry on Google” [spoiler alert, they blindly clicked the first entry on Google], “plex isn’t working, what do you mean check the wifi, I thought we had unlimited wifi”, “how do I check the home phone voicemail”, “how do I redeem cash back on my credit card”, “how do I order pizza from dominos”, “I made an account” [for a site I have a family account setup for already], “I paid for a year of a streaming service without testing the free trial and I can’t stream anything”, “why can’t we play [streaming service we don’t pay for]”, “why does this say ‘ad blocked’ when I try to click on this shady email”, “the home security system went off after I disabled the back door, went outside, then closed the door, then came back in - I don’t understand” [the system armed when they shut the door behind them, then came back in and boom], “why does this say I’m out of cloud space” [14 gigabytes of pointless emails]… And that’s just from recent memory! And this is a constant stream of basic things. I can’t even get them to reliably reboot devices before they are out of ideas. Literally helpless.
All boomers did was successfully take everything for themselves, and didn’t learn a damn bit in the process.
Your experience is not universal. My mother is a boomer and had to teach her school district’s IT guy how to work with Apple products. Usually she only calls me for IT sanity checks before she tries to fix something.
Yours probably didn’t built anything then but mine left me like 5 milion in assets so I am pretty grateful for that kind of worldbuliding
See last sentence. “I got mine, fuck y’all lmao”
