• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I think the point of the comment you replied to was to share space and allow the younger generation to flourish in ways that our generation never did. Break the cycle. This doesn’t mean sacrificing yourself for younger people, the world is big enough for all of us.

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      5 months ago

      Cheers, that’s hopefully the way we can make it work.

      If there’s one thing that often bugs me about my peers, it’s the unwillingness to learn from someone younger than you. Plenty of young people know all kinds of shit I’ve never known and they grew up in a world with access to more accurate information and education, so things I was taught in my childhood may be wrong.

      For example, since I don’t have kids of my own, until recently I was totally unaware that there was a chickenpox vaccine. I was one of the last generations of ‘chicken pox parties’ where they just tried to get entire classes of kids to get it all at once so they wouldn’t get it at a more dangerous age.

      Young people will almost always have access to new and useful information we may not.

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        Absolutely. I’ve got a younger dude that works for me and he teaches me so much on the daily, it’s pretty rad.

        There’s a chickenpox vaccine? Huh, TIL. I remember my chickenpox party lol, it seemed so weird at the time to be made to hang out with other kids that were sick with the intent of getting sick.

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        If I see they’ve accomplished something I haven’t, I listen. So long as they’re not shitty about it.

        It’s not hard to find young people who have accomplished what I haven’t.