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okay boomer has become one of the most
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frequently used catchphrases by
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Millennials when addressing an older
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generation that to them seems
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disconnected from the times we are
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living in but what makes one a Boomer
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really welcome to a lacks com the place
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where future billionaires come to get
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inspired if you're not subscribed yet
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you're missing out today we're looking
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at 15 signs you're a boomer hallo a luck
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sir sir welcome back in this Sunday
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motivational video we'll be addressing
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the generational gap and even help some
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of you identify yourselves if you're not
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so sure you've probably heard of baby
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boomers before generally those born
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between 1946 and 1964 outside of the
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technological progress statistically
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this is one of the best times in history
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to be born and in this video we'll be
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breaking it down for you here are the 15
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signs you're a boomer number one you
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were a victory baby basically the war
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was over soldiers came home and everyone
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was celebrating them that celebration
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resulted in you being born because the
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war was won your parents got to enjoy
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the spoils of a cultural and power shift
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happening the old European empires were
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now in shambles and the US was ready to
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become the center of the financial world
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this period lasted roughly for 20 years
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number two you grew up in the most
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privileged economic time in US history
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basically the u.s. was the only
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industrialized nation that wasn't
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ravaged by war while everyone else was
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rebuilding the US had a massive
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competitive advantage in industry which
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led to an exceptional standard of living
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US factories are producing the resources
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needed to rebuild Europe and money
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started flooding in American goods were
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being sold throughout the world and
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because of the economic environment
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there were very few competitors because
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of this high demand and production there
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was a short supply of workforce which
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led to the highest paying jobs in world
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history when you correlate
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to the cost-of-living basically getting
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a job was incredibly easy and it paid
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incredibly well the cost of education
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was also at an all-time low at this
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point
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so the majority of the population got to
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enjoy a competitive edge when it comes
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to white-collar jobs as well just an
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example the average boomer could afford
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to pay for college by taking a part-time
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job during their studies number three
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you grew up playing outside most of you
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probably grew up playing outside because
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frankly there weren't any other options
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TV became popular in the late 50s and he
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remember what it was like when your
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parents brought one home for the first
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time playing outside forced you to build
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a minimum set of social skills although
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parenting at the time wasn't that great
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either everyone was doing so well you
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were expected to obey your parents and
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be grateful for the food they put on the
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table the military experience was
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brought into the family and you learned
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to deal with it you looked up to your
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dad as your personal hero and most of
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his behavioral traits were passed down
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to you
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number four your views on equality
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differ from that of your children
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growing up wasn't the same for everybody
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especially minorities which went through
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nationwide discrimination in order to
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keep this video generally relatable we
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focused on a percentage of the
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population who made up the majority
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unsurprisingly this was made up by white
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Christian men and women in what is
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considered traditional families although
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you don't want to admit it you're
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unlikely to look at everyone as equals
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and this was driven mostly because of
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the economic boom when groups of people
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are doing well they look down on those
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who aren't and this is still happening
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today the u.s. versus Mexicans the UK
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versus Eastern Europe or migrants and so
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on because of the strict parenting style
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you grew up under you were told that men
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should suppress their feelings and act
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in a certain way the reverse of the coin
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also applies to women you had clear
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expectations of gender roles and how a
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person should behave and know their
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place in society however today the world
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has evolved beyond that primitive
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mindset and the new generation is
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growing up
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understanding the diversity of our
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social web because of the way you grew
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up it's hard to accept that things are
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different and feel threatened by change
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so you do your best to suppress it
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number five you are more organized
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disciplined and like to show up early
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there were also advantages to that type
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of mindset growing up under military
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discipline you learned early on to be
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organized and keep putting one foot in
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front of the other
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you learned punctuality and how to deal
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with life when it doesn't go your way as
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long as you kept doing what you were
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supposed to be doing things figured
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themselves out discipline became your
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middle name even to this day this
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behavior of better safe than sorry is
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still visible how many of you show up
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three hours before a domestic flight
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takes off just to be certain you make it
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onto the plane you probably also walk in
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a restaurant or shop five minutes before
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closing time because the sign says it's
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open until 10:00 although this mix might
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be funny sometimes it definitely served
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your generation well Millennials and Gen
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Z grew up assaulted by notifications
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distractions and custom tailored
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marketing which led them to be unable to
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focus and maintain a steady course of
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action this is why to this day one of
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the most valuable videos on our channel
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remains to be 15 steps to
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self-discipline which you can check out
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by clicking in the top right corner
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number six you're currently going
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through a midlife crisis something
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happened to you and you realized you
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have more years behind you than you have
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ahead of you you almost started to panic
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the world is changing so quickly
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technology is evolving people want
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different pronouns and you can't deal
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with it all you know you've lost your
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youth but growing up you believed you'd
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live forever so now you're doing
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everything in your power to extend
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anything that makes you feel alive you
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know your generation had it good when
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the number one way of acting out in your
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midlife crisis is buying a more
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expensive car or joining another country
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club before you scratch the inside of
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your ear with your brand-new car keys
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you have to take a step back and make
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peace with yourself there are cycles in
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life and you have to learn to make the
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most out of each cycle that you're in
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number seven you demand respect just
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because of your age this generic idea of
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respecting your elders was a really good
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thing back in the day when nobody had
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access to information and the threat of
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war was all around us historically the
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older people knew more about the world
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than the younger people but this is
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simply not a reality today the average
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fifteen-year-old has a deeper
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understanding of current events on a
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global scale then everyone in your
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generation did by the time they were 40
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this is because of this technology
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revolution were experiencing where
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everybody is connected and information
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flows quickly in 140 characters or less
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the second argument for respecting your
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elders comes from their involvement
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during the war when your grandparents
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fought for you to enjoy the spoils of
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your current life war changed as well
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with a technological revolution and now
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we have drones and significantly fewer
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horses to ride into battle with against
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the adjacent tribe this doesn't mean the
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younger generation shouldn't respect
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those worthy of respect it's just that
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they look at things differently the
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newer generation offers respect based on
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current actions not because you feel
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entitled to it because of your age
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so before you walk around the locker
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room with your jewels on display maybe
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you should consider how you're making
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everyone else feel number 8 you bottle
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up feelings instead of addressing them
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as a generation there was this emphasis
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put on projecting toughness at all costs
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you were unable to discuss openly about
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your feelings because you were a man so
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your children grew up cherishing the two
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or three times in their entire
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childhoods when they had a real
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connection with you you probably
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understand this now and maybe even
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regret it and are making an effort to
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compensate for it this has led to an
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entire generation of adults to be filled
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in by stress negative emotions and
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worries they were unable to share with
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anybody else you see the culture most of
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the boomers are complaining about today
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is the direct result of I hate to be
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using this phrase but it's toxic
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masculinity that was used to compensate
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for the lack of real
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action number nine you paid off your
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house and refused to move first of all
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good for you owning property is one of
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the smartest things anyone can do and
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your generation had the perfect
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opportunity to get in on it early let's
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talk some facts in the 1950s the price
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of a house was a little bit over 2.2
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times the average income of a Boomer
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family today the average millennial
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household needs to put down five times
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their income in order to buy a house the
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fundamentals are simple prices of
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everything are going up while the wages
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aren't going up as quickly which brings
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us to the second problem boomers
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purchased the main real estate back in
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their day around city centers because it
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was so affordable businesses are also
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located here making the interest in
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living near work to be a deciding factor
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on where to purchase since the homes in
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the city are owned by boomers the new
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generation has slim pickings but high
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demand so property prices are shooting
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up once again all of these lead us to a
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third and final problem because property
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prices were so low the boomer generation
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purchased a lot of it they purchased and
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developed huge properties worth a lot of
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money in today's economy the issue is
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nobody has the money to afford them as
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of now the real estate market in the US
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gets flooded with ultra expensive
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properties owned by the boomer
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generation these mansions were a status
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symbol back in the 60s 70s and 80s but
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now almost nobody can afford to splurge
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20 million plus for your property so as
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a society we've reached a bit of a
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stalemate
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number 10 your parents and grandparents
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left you a better economy than your
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leaving your children and grandchildren
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all of this housing bubble led to the
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2008 financial collapse suddenly reality
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hit everyone that an economy can turn if
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mismanaged times are changing super fast
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aided by technology and the current
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economy is being run by your generation
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one that has little understanding of
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what it takes to remain competitive it's
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not your fault
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because historically all you had to do
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was show up and work and put the hours
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in and value kept adding up but this is
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no longer viable in a global economy
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unfortunately this is the truth we're
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living in the age of the Internet
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governed by people who don't understand
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it if you don't believe us just take a
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couple of minutes and watch the Senate
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hearing with Mark Zuckerberg which took
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place last year these are the people who
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are in charge of focusing the digital
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economy for the benefit of the
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population in the process of continuous
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financial growth you sacrificed the
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future for gains of the moment back in
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the day there was very little interest
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in what makes sense for the planet or
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the future generations because you were
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all churning money at a cost you were
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not going to pay for the problem is
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you're very much aware of this right now
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but it still feels bad getting called
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out on it but hey you're not the only
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ones screwing it up the new generation
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despises boomers for destroying the
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housing market but young people in the
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future will hate Millennials for
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destroying their privacy statistically
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you probably have 30 years or so to live
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you might have young grandchildren or
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are expecting them soon and they are
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likely to be the ones having to solve
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this mess if you've been in a lexer for
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a while now
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you might be familiar with you've all
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know a Harare he's an author we've
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century is a must read by everyone who
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wants to understand the world will be
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the experience the new generation has
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the insights into technology maybe
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there's still time to redeem ourselves
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number 11 paying off your college
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tuition was fairly easy we strongly
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believe that education is one of the
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next industries to be completely
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disrupted higher education used to be an
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investment you put this much money in do
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your time and at the end of it you
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secure a high enough paying job that the
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investment was worth it then education
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changed into something more similar to
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insurance i'ma get educated because I
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need the security that I'll be able to
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feed myself once I've finished my
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studies today we are dealing with the
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unprecedented inflation of education
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everybody gets educated at a
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mind-boggling price without any real
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prospects today education is seen more
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like a service you pay for than an
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investment or insurance you simply take
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out a massive loan you have to carry
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with you for a good portion of your life
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and in exchange you receive a piece of
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paper and four years of partying let's
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talk some numbers shall we here let's
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take a Yale for example in 1970 the
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annual tuition for Yale was $2,500 in
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2020 the same annual tuition costs forty
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eight thousand five hundred dollars the
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minimum wage in 1970 was one dollar
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forty-five cents the minimum wage now is
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$7.25 you don't have to be a Yale
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graduate to understand the cost of
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education increased 20 times while the
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average wage barely increased five times
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as a Boomer you only had to work 4.8
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hours per day to afford your schooling
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as a millennial or Jen said you'd need
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to work 17.5 hours per day has a Boomer
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you could afford your tuition by taking
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a part-time job but right now a
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full-time position isn't enough number
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12 you get to vote on policies that you
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will not have to live with as of right
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now your generation is behind the wheel
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of society the system was designed so
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that each generation gets its turn when
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the time is right it worked out
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incredibly well in the past because
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problems never had an exponential growth
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curve but right now a large portion of
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the population is denying climate change
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including the current President of the
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United States a serious problem that 98%
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of the scientific community agrees with
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is one of the most dangerous threats to
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us as a species yet it's denied the
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truth is current politicians lack the
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understanding and the skillset to deal
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with the problems that govern society
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today
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health care is a disaster we have live
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footage from space of the polar caps
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being completely melted the climate is
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out of control due to increased
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temperatures and every military is
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pouring millions of dollars into
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creating the first advanced AI to have
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the upper hand in the technology wars
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and at the helm of it all you have
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people who can to rotate a PDF we don't
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hold the answer
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but a short-sighted approach is simply
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not going to work with what we'll have
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to deal with number 13 you don't know
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what a tick-tock is or how modern
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technology works we get it robots are
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scary because Terminator came out when
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you were in your Prime
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technology was slow it was expensive and
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you got around without having to worry
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about it today times have changed
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dramatically we don't put the remote on
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top of the TV anymore we're super
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comfortable as self-checkout and the
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majority of our time is spent online
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because that's where everything is you
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find a job online you pay your bills
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online you find a partner online and so
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forth keeping up with technology is a
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choice if you want your thinking to
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remain relevant
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while the boomer generation is
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requesting faxes and years of experience
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for unpaid internships the new
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generation has embraced the Internet to
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the point of no return number fourteen
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physical abuse by her parents was
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socially acceptable be honest for a
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moment not with us but with yourself
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back when you were growing up it was
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socially acceptable for your parents to
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smack you you're the generation that got
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triggered when people of color drank
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from the same water fountain as you so
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getting a beating wasn't that big of a
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deal they we're being beaten by their
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parents like a badge of honor even to
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this day there are people out there who
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think this is something normal and
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should even be promoted as an effective
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disciplinary tool because hey you turned
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out fine didn't you Daniel shipwreck put
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it perfectly on Twitter when he said if
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you suffered in life and want other
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people to suffer as you did because you
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turned out fine you did not in fact turn
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out fine you might think this generation
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is soft but hey at least they can look
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their kids in the eye and tell them they
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love them
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number 15 you send all of your contacts
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a mass happy new year SMS for some
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reason the boomer generation believes
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that this is a sign of care this is
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their vision of leveraging technology
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for the most boring and useless aspect
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of the holidays nobody really likes
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receiving them they love to call others
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for anything even when a text would have
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sufficed
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what else do boomers do that makes no
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sense let's see they can't tell fake
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news from what's real they spend their
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whole lives being indoctrinated into a
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single political movement they identify
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as a group use AOL and Yahoo email love
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having everything stored on paper in
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case it comes in handy still pay for
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cable think bar soap is better put
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linoleum or carpet over hardwood floors
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what else
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they love their ringtones Facebook games
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Koff without covering their mouths and
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so on you know the drill
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before you slowly type with your index
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finger a negative comment on this video
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we're letting you know that next week
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we're doing the Jen's add millennial
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video so you can feel better about
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yourselves but now we're opening up the
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floor to you guys what are some other
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signs someone's a Boomer let us know in
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the comments and we'll be sure to heart
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the best ones and as a bonus for
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watching this video until the end here's
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your bonus boomer sign number 16 the
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phrase okay boomer offends you first of
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all if you're offended by this you're
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just proving how fragile your ego is No
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okay boomer isn't the n-word for old
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people cut it out it's not ageism you're
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not a victim here it's just a response
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the younger generation has come up with
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to address situations where you wouldn't
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understand something because of your
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outdated mindset and disconnect from the
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reality of today okay boomer is the
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reverse of you'll understand when you're
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older this piece of advice applies to
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everyone you need to be grateful for
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everything that previous generations
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have made for you and be wise enough to
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plant trees in a shade of which you'll
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never sit at the end of the day we're
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all specks of dust on a tiny rock trying
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to survive the emptiness of space
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our mission goes beyond you and I we
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want to take this opportunity to thank
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everyone who's made it this far in the
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