• Vreyan31@reddthat.com
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    16 hours ago

    Ok. Before you get mad. Do you think you are a normal representative of your age group?

    If you walk into a room of people you don’t know but who are all likely born within +/-5yrs of you, would you expect to be able to talk about crypto with any sophistication and at least half would be able to follow?

    If not, then the generalization is true even if it doesn’t apply to you specifically.

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      5 hours ago

      Oh I wasn’t mad, it was meant as more an humorous thing more than anything. I should have added “Now get off my lawn!!”. And yeah a lot of people in my age group wouldn’t understand. I’m also surrounded by a bunch of nerds my age so my perception is a little skewed.

      But you might be surprised how many IT folks are in my age group. It was a good job to get into in the 1990s. So there are lots of techy mid to late 50s out there.

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      5 hours ago

      You think half of any group of zoomers can talk with sophistication about Crypto?

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        2 hours ago

        The median zoomer can probably talk about it far more accurately than the median gen x-er or boomer

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        4 hours ago

        100%. I doubt any of my kids (millennials and gen z) have any clue about any of this. As far as tech is concerned, I run rings around all of them. But that’s just not their thing. We all have things we’re good at. Just like I can’t do the things they’re good at.

        But the original thought wasn’t really wrong. I went from basic phones, to cordless phones, to bag phones, to candy bar type cell phones, to palm pilot phones, to iPhones with more computer power than some of the first Cray super computers. My first computer had 64k of memory and now I throw out 4GB dimms because they’re too small to keep. A lot of shit has changed in 50 years.