The Prison of Financial Mediocrity
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The Prison of Financial Mediocrity
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Re: The Prison of Financial Mediocrity
#2The irony of another article about AI that appears to be written by an LLM...
Re: The Prison of Financial Mediocrity
#3First and foremost: I think HN needs a reliable way to leverage downvotes for LLM generated articles. This crap is not worth discussing 99% of the time.
This is clearly a draft scribbled by someone and then post-processed by chatGPT.
That said:
>> When boomers hold ~50% of national wealth while comprising 20% of the population, and millennials hold ~10% despite being the same share, the game reveals itself to be fundamentally broken.
These numbers mean nothing. Also, the byproduct of billionaire-driven inequality is the collapse of the American Middle Class. That’s what’s under attack and the reason why the road is closed has nothing to do with those lucky enough to still make it into it. Look up, ffs.
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#4Articles like this are unfair to boomers. Yes they have 50% of the wealth or whatever despite being 20% of the population, but they also have had time to earn that wealth fair and square and are not quite elderly enough to have spent it all on average. I'm sick and tired of articles blaming normal people who worked for what they have for issues that amount to geopolitical struggles.
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#5No doubt OP had something great to say, but it reads like an LLM was used to explode their ideas out to a long, “professional” essay.
Extra words rarely have more content, only potential surprises - forcing your reader to go through it all in case of something unexpected..
LLM use doesn’t help you stand out. To make your writing professional in 2025, use as few words as possible.
Re: The Prison of Financial Mediocrity
#6First and foremost: I think HN needs a reliable way to leverage downvotes for LLM generated articles. This crap is not worth discussing 99% of the time. This is clearly a draft scribbled by someone and then post-processed by chatGPT. That said: >> When boomers hold ~50% of national wealth while comprising 20% of the population, and millennials hold ~10% despite being the same share, the game reveals itself to be fund…
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Re: The Prison of Financial Mediocrity
#7Articles like this are unfair to boomers. Yes they have 50% of the wealth or whatever despite being 20% of the population, but they also have had time to earn that wealth fair and square and are not quite elderly enough to have spent it all on average. I'm sick and tired of articles blaming normal people who worked for what they have for issues that amount to geopolitical struggles.
Not going to pick on Boomers specifically, but I entered the workforce in 2011. I watched my late Gen-X and Elder Millenial seniors swoop up cheap houses post recession for cheap rates then flip and sell them and go remote in cheap locations. I’m talking buy at 300k and sell at 800k-1M type of deals in 10 years.
While you’re right, there is work involved on the part of the boomers, the amount of leaving scorched earth for future generations is infuriating to watch.
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#8Articles like this are unfair to boomers. Yes they have 50% of the wealth or whatever despite being 20% of the population, but they also have had time to earn that wealth fair and square and are not quite elderly enough to have spent it all on average. I'm sick and tired of articles blaming normal people who worked for what they have for issues that amount to geopolitical struggles.
I'm also always curious to know what happens if you remove wealthy boomers from this pool.
I forget the exact numbers, but let's say ten billionaires own 50% of all the wealth in the US; how many of those folks are boomers?
That'd remarkably change this ratio if it were the case that much of this wealth is held by only a few very wealthy boomers.
Re: The Prison of Financial Mediocrity
#9No doubt OP had something great to say, but it reads like an LLM was used to explode their ideas out to a long, “professional” essay. Extra words rarely have more content, only potential surprises - forcing your reader to go through it all in case of something unexpected.. LLM use doesn’t help you stand out. To make your writing professional in 2025, use as few words as possible.
I know what you mean.
When you sum up all the verbiage, regardless of its original or embellished content & meaning, it could just as well be titled The Enclosure Of Outsized Financial Ambition.
Maybe his LLM is trying to tell him something, like peoples' idea when it comes to rewarding greed is really just mediocrity in wolf's clothing.
Re: The Prison of Financial Mediocrity
#10Articles like this are unfair to boomers. Yes they have 50% of the wealth or whatever despite being 20% of the population, but they also have had time to earn that wealth fair and square and are not quite elderly enough to have spent it all on average. I'm sick and tired of articles blaming normal people who worked for what they have for issues that amount to geopolitical struggles.
I agree with you, except the "fair and square" part.
Can we please stop pretending there's any fairness to any of it? That the reward is proportional to merit, effort, strength of character, utility, or any respectable and desirable quality? That everyone was on equal footing when trying to succeed?
That would be great, thanks.