Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
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Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
#2> One theme we've discussed is that many important institutions in our society (eg education, healthcare, housing, efforts to combat climate change) are still run primarily by boomers in ways that transfer a lot of value from younger generations to boomers themselves.
I do not understand the reason for assuming any successive group of old leaders to behave differently than boomers?
Millenials are going to have an even more disproportionate old age population, and presumably will seek to squeeze the younger generations even more than the boomers:
https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...
Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
#3> While our company has a special role in the lives of this generation, this is likely particularly important for how I show up because I am the most well-known person of my generation.
They really are up their own asses so much in this thread. Just the arrogance of these people absolutely kills me.
Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
#4Zuckerberg as generational representative made my millennial and Gen Z kids lol
Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
#5Previously (2024-07-07; 136 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40898654
Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
#6> One theme we've discussed is that many important institutions in our society (eg education, healthcare, housing, efforts to combat climate change) are still run primarily by boomers in ways that transfer a lot of value from younger generations to boomers themselves. I do not understand the reason for assuming any successive group of old leaders to behave differently than boomers? Millenials are going to have an eve…
It will be an endless whinge "the Boomers screwed us over, so we need to screw over everyone else just to get by."
Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
#7This article flame bait. No point in keeping it up.
Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
#8> While our company has a special role in the lives of this generation, this is likely particularly important for how I show up because I am the most well-known person of my generation. They really are up their own asses so much in this thread. Just the arrogance of these people absolutely kills me.
Well, it’s probably true only if you consider sports and media celebrities as not people, which would be a stretch.
Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
#9> While our company has a special role in the lives of this generation, this is likely particularly important for how I show up because I am the most well-known person of my generation. They really are up their own asses so much in this thread. Just the arrogance of these people absolutely kills me.
I've never seen Zuckerberg fill up a stadium the same way Messi, Ronaldo, Taylor Swift or Beyonce have...
Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
#10** maybe edit of un-shame: ... is it?
* edit of shame: it's satire. Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.
> there is a certain sense in which Mark Zuckerberg has been cast as 'the spokesman' for the Millennial generation — as the single person who gives voice to the hopes and fears and the unique experiences of this generation, at least in the USA
That is an absolutely bananas read of Zuck's place in American culture.