Survival of the fittest
Generational politics are bullshit.
Some things, yes. Others… nah, thats the nanny state in full effect. Telling people that theres danger, and trying to take away personal freedoms arent the same thing. If someone wants to drink, smoke, eat fatty foods, let them. All you we should be doing is saying “yo, that shits bad for you.”. And leave it up to personal choice. This is how it should be for drugs as well.
Seatbelts, why isnt this a personal choice? If you want to fly through the windshield at 70mph, you should be allowed to. Wearing helmets on a bike. If you want to end up with brain damage after a nasty fall, that too should be your choice.
We spend all our time trying to keep dumb people alive. And these are the people who dont rubber up. The more of them who reproduce and you get… well, take a look around…
Second-hand smoking is a thing. People without seatbelts turn into missiles in accidents or just lose control of vehicles and cause accidents, injuring others. All of these plus riders without helmets end up in hospital, costing everybody taxes and lost work days (covering for colleagues even if you don’t care what it costs businesses). You can’t just renege all responsibility for safety because you don’t exist in a vacuum.
Yes, mummy…
“I learned to ride on a liter bike and I didnt die”
I wish he would iron his shirt while hes wearing it
Mhm, yeah no. “Don’t use electric stove to cut vegetables on it” is not a safety precaution, it is a sign of bullshit happening. But I may be thinking of something different from what author meant
But THEY did. And they are all that matters.
survivorship bias…
I’d say it’s more because of bullshit lawsuits. 90,% of the warning labels we have should not be necessary. We used to just accept that if you did stupid shit you might lose a couple fingers or die. Now it runs businesses into the ground and we have created a massive leech of an industry that is insurance. Insurance and lawyers are to blame for all of this.
There was a strong propaganda push in the 90s to make you think that. Mainly stemming from that McDonald’s lawsuit with the coffee. It was a PR campaign let by corporations and tort reform advocates to downplay the seriousness of corporate negligence and place the blame on consumers to try to stop people from suing.
Clearly it was successful. Billion dollar corporations have an obligation to create things with public safety in mind. If nothing else, to make sure they have the max possible customers. If a product injures or kills a customer the business should do everything in its power to correct and amend that. To blame the customer for corporate negligence is absurd.
The same regulatory burden falls on small mom and pop locations and makes doing business impossible for anything but billion dollar corps who are only profit-motivated which drives down wages and leads to the current cost of living crisis that most of the west is experiencing.
If you fall down the stairs, that should essentially never be a lawsuit in my opinion unless there was extreme negligence on the part of the property owner. If you burn yourself it should be your fault. All of this unnecessary regulation and liability is what makes everything so unaffordable.
In lawsuits, details matter. Ya if a person jumps down the stairs it’s their fault. If a business failed to clean up a spill because they layed off workers to reduce costs and a customer falls down the stairs, yes it is the business’ fault.
Funny how those mom and pop business got absorbed by corporations so might as well have those regulations that you think hurt Mom and pop businesses
Exactly. Back in my day we culled people with lead and asbestos. Nowadays any old random can stay alive and the world is crumbling!!! /s
I still ride this. We let our weak die on purpose.
Bring back lawn darts!
Gen X here…. After arguing and having many disagreements with many many boomers over the years, we are not the same. While I have had similar disagreements with younger generations they are fundamentally different because we are old enough to see the mistakes the boomers made but young enough to see the world is very much different and that rampant capitalism and greed is often the blame. Case in point, student loans. I am all for all education should be free and things like crippling student debt should not be a thing. Every boomer I have talked to still thinks either education should be a privilege or that you should be able to put yourself through college and get a masters working at McDonalds or Walmart.
Boomers think it was normal. Genx look back with “holy shit why was that allowed”
I don’t think they understand how demanding studying at university is. That shit is not like high school, where going to class was enough to get by.
Some of us Gen Xers ended up more Boomer-like, and some ended up more Millennial-like.
It’s almost as though huge masses of people can’t just be simplified into lettered groups like some kind of social media horoscope.
My wife is slightly older (still Gen X but barely) and she definitely has more boomer qualities than me.
My girlfriend is solid Gen X and I’m Xennial on the Gen X side. We are both decent folks.
I’m an older millennial on the cusp of being GenX.
You guys definitely aren’t the same as Boomers. Some similarities, but not enough to be grouped in with them.
They don’t even think that though. If they wanted McDonald’s to pay enough for school, they wouldn’t aggressively oppose any attempt to raise the wage
Or more likely they think school still costs $1000 a semester which is what they paid for there kids (me included… since my parents were boomers) to attend college. Not the 80k it cost to send one of my kids through school. Want proof? Go ask any boomer what college costs now.
Meh. They’re reintroducing mare dangerous play now because we went too far with safety.
Lol ageism is great because we all eventually get some.
