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by klyrs 1297 days ago
I've seen people calling SBF and Caroline Ellison "kids." Scandals surround Biden's "child" and Trump's "children." These "kids" are stepping back as it becomes clear that they're teetering on the brink of a collapsing economy, possibly because they were overconfident about bitcoin.

Common theme: these are all grown-ass adults of 30+ years. I'll be honest, I have trouble believing that I'm an adult and I'm over 40. I hate to say it, but... was Gen X the last generation of adults?

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"Adulthood" is just an arbitrary marker usually defined by some form of hazing. As we reject traditional rites of passage and ritual markers of "adulthood" (or they are withheld from us like home ownership or family rearing becoming unaffordable) adulthood becomes elusive.

I don't care one yotta. Everything about this monkey society life is utterly arbitrary.

Older boomers control the lion's share of the wealth.