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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We made more in the market than we have lost to inflation. And people are still spending like there’s no tomorrow.[/quote]

Good for you boomer. I was a new grad with almost nothing in the market when Covid happened [/quote]

DP. Not a Boomer. Based on your post, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person! I love this for you. Your whiny, negative attitude and lack of resiliency tells me you were always going to be poor and a loser.

COVID is hardly the worst or only bad thing that has happened, you just lack a knowledge of history and have a deep sense of entitlement. The Holocaust,WWI, WWII, Vietnam, the crash 1929…[/quote]

Your post is 10x more whiney and entitled than the short and pertinent comment from pp so maybe take a good look in a mirror. [/quote]

Explain how it’s whiny and entitled? Life has always been hard. I don’t expect anything different. You on the other hand…weak.[/quote]Life hasn't always been as competitive as it is now. It's a by product of the easy access to information.

Do you remember when you might know a driving shortcut that no other cars used? Now everyone knows. Do you remember when you might know of a great sale, show up a little late but still find your size? Now everyone goes first day. Do you remember when you could book a great beach house in May, lol good luck with that now.

It's not just those. Back in the day only the people who really valued something were in on the best info about it. Now everyone who is vaguely interested has the same best inside tips. The result is less overall happiness because for everyone. [/quote]

This is true, and obviously due to the democratization of information via technology. But it also touches on something else that really bothers me about now versus maybe 15 years ago.

People are more confident in their own knowledge now. You might think that sounds great! I thought so too, initially. People have access to so much more information that they can arm themselves with, and that makes them approach lots of different situations with more confidence and security, especially when they are interacting with experts in a field outside their own -- doctors, teachers, therapists, chefs, etc. So you can be more educated going into an appointment with a medical specialist, or talking to your kid's 2nd grade teacher. Sounds good, right?

The problem is that people only have a little bit of knowledge, often that knowledge is not very good, and their confidence is unmerited. And this creates all kinds of problems. People don't listen to each other anymore, including listening to actual experts who are trying to give them important information. They assume they must know better. This contributes to the breakdown of trust in institutions, because when you are convinced you know everything, it's very easy to take what is actually your tiny amount of knowledge and cast doubt over institutions that actually have a ton of knowledge. So universities are a con, the CDC are liars, the hospital is just out to swindle you, your actual therapist doesn't know as much as your TikTok therapist, and so on. If everyone is an expert, then no one is.

I have also just gotten exhausted by how everyone talks now, because so many people think they are experts. We're a country of reply guys now -- "Well, actually..." It makes it hard to connect with people, because you're so often being lectured at or contradicted by them instead. It's so important for people to be viewed as "in the know." But real communication requires people to believe they don't know anything, and be willing to listen and learn. This feels increasingly rare. A lot of places I go now -- work, book club, exercise class, PTO meetings -- it's just a bunch of know-it-alls trying to top each other. Maybe this problem is worse in DC than it is other places (probably?) but I miss when people used to not know things and be okay with it.[/quote]

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