cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501866
source: @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
Youth bad, hate youth
Haha funny
This is the same rhetoric the Boomers used to keep us down.
Every generation is smarter than the last, us millennials need to learn to cope without ageist propaganda.
I’m not a millenial, I’m a part of gen z.
A high amount of this generation is hopeless when it comes to tech. There is outliers and exceptions, but as a whole, tech literacy has gone down.
At the very least, your generation has the ability to eventually learn tech usage. Its not too late like it is for boomers.
I’ve had a not insignificant amount of people who don’t want to learn how to. Boomers can learn how to. I love showing old people how to use google lens.
I’m a millennial computer scientist
This is literally propaganda
This is the exact same as boomers thinking they are superior to millennials for knowing how to drive stick shift or write cursive.
But both cursive and manual stick shift (at least in the USA) are being used less and less, but computers are being used more, while literacy goes down.
I think it has to do with barrier of entry. Way back in the day, you had to be quite the hacker to operate a computer (say Amiga or ZX Spectrum). Then, with Windows XP (or 98), it became easier to operate one, but some tasks still required clever ways to solve. Fast forward to now, all you have to do is click one icon at the bottom bar, write what you want in the top bar, and you got a billion answers.
Most of the stuff I learned was because the path to successfully perform stuff required knowing lots of different stuff.
For context, first PC was Win 98 when I was 7, born 1996.
IMHO, the tone is entirely different from “millennials are all worthless, lazy, whiny bitches” to “zoomers aren’t as tech savvy as millennials.”
For one, we millennials don’t think it’s totally true, and I think it’s more a point of pride, because we grew up learning technology as it grew with us, than shitting on another generation.
