Boomers can't even send a telegram in morse code. What a spoiled generation.

@Sniperbear13

Ай бұрын

lol.

The DIY thing in particular is infuriating to me. When was I supposed to learn these things? When I was a child? Then why didn't you teach me? Nah, this was "grown up work" and "I might hurt myself". Just go and play. Am I supposed to learn on my own once I've moved out? How? I live in an apartment that I'm legally prohibited from altering in any major way, and if anything breaks, I'm supposed to contact the landlord. If I try to fix it myself, I might get evicted. My parents learned some of their DIY skills by building a garden shed in their backyard when I was small. A full month of my salary doesn't cover the material costs of that shed, and even if it did, I can't afford the backyard to build it in, because housing prices have surged twentyfold since I was born. I wonder whose fault that is?

@NoraNoita

Ай бұрын

yea. The government, adults, the tax office, all expect you to know how to properly pay for things, not break the laws that were never taught to you, not mess up on things you were never told you have to do, and all the things they seemingly want you to do, because they do it, if you question the use or viability of it, they go "oh we always have done it this way" or "everyone has this". Yeah if you live on rent in an apartment, you have to read the contract what you can and can't do with the apartment.

@1IGG

Ай бұрын

Yap. The equivalent of pushing someone down a flight of stairs and asking them where they are going to so quickly.

@philipschorr5145

Ай бұрын

Let's also not gloss over the fact that from what my suburban house hunting has taught me, they weren't very good at DIYing stuff either.

@maxwellsterling

Ай бұрын

The fear of breaking things (and the consequences for it sometimes) really hinders the progress of a lot of people. I'm sure there are many people out there who are only unable to fix their computer because it's a bunch of parts costing hundreds and you don't want to fuck anything up with money you don't have. I don't mess with my computer because I didn't learn it, I don't have old pieces I can possibly break, and it's easier to pay more to have someone fix it while being legally liable for any damage.

My favorite quote: "Every generation thinks it is smarter than the previous one and wiser than the next one".

You've just described my parents, and I'm a millennial. Not only did they not teach me squat, they actively forbade doing stuff like cooking and doing the laundry, because i had "sh*t for hands". When I grew up I suddenly was supposed to know and be able to do everything. Now I'm trying to be a good, supportive mentor to my nephews. I know - if their parents and me teach them stuff now, it will make their life much better.

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." - John Adams

@Sniperbear13

Ай бұрын

but sadly he didn't account for time. did he know how to read a clock?

Unfortunately Josh, not everyone shares your thinking in learning/teaching. When i first started my job as an assistant engineer, i was fresh out of college and the gen x/boomers there expected me to have all the basic skills, how to read wire diagrams, how to analyze and reverse engineer electrical faults, how to isolate technical issues etc. They called it "no spoonfeeding" and because they learned all these by themselves without a mentor as well, the "young" generation needs to do so just like them, "sink or swim". They always say we're a team and if you have questions just ask, but we have asked and the answer we got was "Well did you THINK properly before asking that? We're not here to think for you and give you answers freely". These are the exact people sitting in supervising/managing roles and in their retirement phase of their jobs and are planning to hand over responsibilities to the newer generation yet they refuse to pass on knowledge willingly.

@vcool122

Ай бұрын

I study (I went back to school in the same field but a different formation) in web programming and we learn at school how to do html/css/js/php by hand directly. I worked at CGI wich is a consulting firm in that field and how it work is my manager finds client contracts for me. Once he put me on a team where they were using Wordpress and Access. I was lost because I had to learn how to use those tools and the team leader told my manager he didn't want me on the team because he didn't expect I had to learn those tools. -_-

@LooneyClipse

Ай бұрын

Right, how the fk are u supposed to learn efficiently if knowledge is hoarded. It literally slows down the progress. Theres no reason to not share knowledge besides some sense of inferiority. (Or superiority , id guess former tho) Obviously younger generation will take the information, add on it and in the end will be, should be smarter and faster. Like those kind of boomers and gen x are the worst. Im totally unrelated to to any programming and whatnot, but as an artist i understand need to learn fundamentals (its self explanatory), but that doesnt mean i wont use technology and cut corners to create what i want based on tools that were provided by someone before me to add and expand to my work and knowledge *much faster* than if i did not have these tools. Its baffling. And thats why i stayed in one workplace for years, because my superiors always said "ask if you have questions" and would only get annoyed by excess, but correctly deduced that there may he problems if theres excess questioning. AND SUCH ATTITUDE IS RARE.

@yewtewbstew547

Ай бұрын

Okay that would have been annoying, but who really had more responsibility to prepare you for the workplace? Was it the asshole managers you're complaining about, or was it the lecturers at the college you graduated from? I'm not saying the boomer managers had no responsibility, it definitely sounds like they were assholes, but based on what you're saying it also sounds as though your college lecturers probably shafted you even more than the managers did. It was specifically the lecturers' jobs to prepare you for that workplace, and they didn't. Maybe they were nice people and you got along with them in the classes, so you don't think of it that way, but that's what it sounds like. And that wouldn't be a unique scenario, that's pretty much the modern education system to a T.

@Heowolf

Ай бұрын

It's very odd that wasn't taught in year 1 (or 3 depending on if you started general and went specific later). Not saying your current situation is okay, but you should definitely have been prepared for simple electrical tasks at college. If they're asking you to think about the question its probably because they think it's already been taught to you (most likely because they learned it in college) so its more of a "C'mon you know this, think" - hopefully at least. You might get somewhere if you start a dialogue about how teams are supposed to help fill knowledge gaps or wait for them to have boomer tech issues and hit them with the same shtick (if they can take a joke).

@1IGG

Ай бұрын

Not having proper onboarding is very poor management of resources. Those people are idiots

I've done various forms of phone/chat tech support, and it was 13 years of getting yelled at by boomers and their inability to use technology they invented/depend on...

@AeriFyrein

Ай бұрын

"Did you restart the computer? Okay. Let's try next. Still nothing? Alright, can you unplug the computer from the wall outlet for me? Great, wait a couple more seconds, just checking something... Okay, plug it back in for me, got what I needed. Go ahead and press the power button now. It's turning on? Fantastic!"

Josh, the master of diverting a conversation to the direction he wants it to.

@quax6625

Ай бұрын

More like a monologue

@Helikite

Ай бұрын

We call it 'being a streamer' in these parts of the internet.

@daanstrik4293

17 күн бұрын

@@HelikitePretty easy to lead the conversation when the other side only gets to talk whenever their messages are read. I’m not saying it should work differently mind you. But calling somebody a “master of divering a conversation” is a bit excessive

I always turn it around on my parents this exact same way when they start hammering away about how youth today are awful/entitled/stupid,etc.... who raised us? Who taught us? Who made us this way? If younger generations are monsters, then you're Dr Frankenstein.

@umphreak9999

Ай бұрын

universal answer: "Trust me, it's not MY kids" yeah, sure Bill

@archeryguy1701

Ай бұрын

@@umphreak9999 Oh yeah, that's EXACTLY what my mom says. "You guys are the exception, we raised you right."

There was a sentiment going around during the pandemic that most millennials and younger did not receive proper life education from their parents and were having to learn everything from Reddit and KZread. Which is totally relatable. I'm a millennial who knows how to fix a car. I learned from KZread, my dad barely taught me anything about it other than what tool to grab for him.

@maxwellsterling

Ай бұрын

At some point in my life I was afraid of even being the one grabbing tools because the moment I asked which one was the rotary 10-inch turbowrench torquer, on started the nagging about how I don't magically know which tool is which.

"i suffered so you should suffer" - OSRS Ironmen who go above droprates

@tobagabonany

Ай бұрын

I don't know why they didn't simply choose to get the drop. Sounds like a skill issue tbh

"Its only easy if you know the answer." - wise man in the ER waiting room watching subtitled Jeopardy

"We didn't want them" -> SO god damned true. Almost all of my participation trophies went straight into the bin before I got home. Had to bring a few home to prove I was doing *something* though

To be fair, a lack of DIY skills is very much at the root of a few large scale problems we're facing right now. We're not just losing the pieces to re-solve solved problems, we're also losing some pieces crucial to preventing problems we're being sold unaffordable solutions to. And that fits into the widening wealth gap with alarming effectiveness.

@Poldovico

Ай бұрын

In particular, we are being driven to a loss of self sufficiency in multiple areas where that capacity to deal with something ourselves must by necessity be supplanted by money, except in proportion to the sum of the areas where this is happening, that's money we don't have.

@yewtewbstew547

Ай бұрын

My dad was talking about this a while back and, I think as you were touching on, part of it is changing technology. Stuff nowadays is being _intentionally_ built to not be DIY repairable. So not only are we losing DIY skills, many skills that people actually do have often aren't even applicable. The thing my dad was complaining about was cars. He's not a mechanic, but he used to know enough to work on his own car and stuff. Nowadays the internals of a new car might as well be a UFO to him.

@Poldovico

Ай бұрын

@@yewtewbstew547 And what's worse, even if he could work with those intentionally obtuse designs, a lot of the stuff is just locked down. Components can be cryptographically paired, in many cases for no reason other than to force anyone who actually can fix them to still need the manufacturer's intervention. We'll see how the new EU legislation will interact with that, but right now it's dire.

@FFXfever

Ай бұрын

That's not a skill problem. 3/4 of the gadgets you buy now are designed to be consumed and thrown away. I used to repair phones, but I'm not really gonna bother in the modern day, because of how it voids warranty, how much parts now cost, and how annoying it is to take apart and put back together. The only things you're really allowed to repair nowadays are house, cars, and computers, and even those are following the same path. Want a firmware update in your smart home device? Tough luck, but you can buy a new one to get it.

I work with a guy like that right now unfortunately who purposefully withholds information about a job to see if you can figure out the issue yourself. What actually happened is he bricked it and wants the new people to unscrew it up for him and when they don’t or can’t he walks around saying “Oh they don’t know anything.” That bitter old d-bag can’t hit retirement age soon enough.

It pains me when I see my fellow millennials, who railed against all the op-eds calling them lazy and entitled (the Me Generation, remember that?), turn around and do the same thing to Gen Z. I swore to myself I wouldn't become that person and so far so good.

@xionkuriyama5697

Ай бұрын

Seeing this happen did an absolute number on my faith in humanity. We all promised we wouldn't become that person, and then look what happened the second Gen Z got old enough to make fun of. Humans never change, they never change, we never grow as a species.

@Mizuladin

Ай бұрын

@@xionkuriyama5697 Speak for yourself, especially if you're lumping yourself with those people. Never would I do that but that says more about yourself than anything, I guess. I haven't become that person. Since you have, go change yourself and then cry about society.

@daanstrik4293

17 күн бұрын

Yup. That was a sobering reality check. I am still seeing a large group of people properly fighting against the cycle of mockery. But its a minority. Or at least the more quiet group. Every generation has good and bad people. I’m just sad we haven’t significantly improved the good/bad ratio

it shouldnt be "I suffered, so you should suffer too" but instead it should be: "I suffered, so you dont have to, because i can now show/teach/tell you how to prevent the suffering i had to endure, so you can focus on new problems, rather then dealing with the ones that are already solved" Maybe needs to be shortened, but i didnt have more time.

@Sniperbear13

Ай бұрын

it should be but sadly, its not. i kinda have come to the conclusion set that my Generation(Millennials) are going to be a stepping stone generation.

@OysterOfDoom

Ай бұрын

“I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.“- John Adams

@Mythki11er

Ай бұрын

Cultural Evolution maybe

@niqhtt

Ай бұрын

Should be, but it isn't. Every new group thinks they know and it won't matter/effect them and has to learn it on their own in their particular situations.

I hate when school teachers say that something students don't know anymore. Like maybe if you teach them? thats your effing job

@niqhtt

Ай бұрын

Love to. Many of them truly don't care to learn. Getting them to put the phone down is a nightmare. I will be doing a lesson next year on basic computer usage and navigating Window and having guides to refer back to when they need because after 13 weeks of the class having students asking me how to undo, save, and turn it in is killing my soul.

Any time an adult starts lamenting about how "kids today don't know basic life skills," ask them who taught them those basic life skills, then sit back and enjoy the waffling

"I suffered so you have to" works very well when it's funny. Video games, memes, jokes, minor inconveniences like a lightswitch that shuts off the power that you don't tell someone visiting about because it'll be kinda funny when they flick it. It doesn't work when it's not funny. When it's a serious matter, with consequence, or long term impact of any sort. This applies in some cases to the above, if not telling someone something in a game is going to cost them hours of effort, I'll speak up. But mostly, it applies to life in general.

I cant imagine having the mentality of *not* sharing knowledge. I played a game with some friends the other day, your classic call of duty style wave based zombie shooter. There were no damage values other than when you hit a target so i looked to see if there was a wiki or something to show the damage values. A wiki, but no tables. Well guess I'll record and update them myself. I did that for all the base damage values, base prices and the first weapon completely upgraded to max. Someone then went in after me, formatted everything and updated more tables. Imagine if me and the other person found the damage values and just hoarded our tables to ourselves? We'd have a collective of people hoarding damage numbers for the sake of spite - wasting many more man hours that could have been dedicated to other tasks. I dont want other people to struggle to get to the same conclusion - i want people to be on the same page so that we can divide and conquer the problem. Only an incompetent fool would intentionally drag out trying to solve a problem to preserve their authoritative position.

I am still doing something petty, and I am 100% aware it is. I was never shown how to tie my shoes, and my dad made a big huff about it and kinda gave me crap at a worksite I was on with him. Embarrassed the hell out of me. From that day forward I vowed to never tie (or have) my shoes ‘properly’ in his presence. I learnt mid highschool how to do them anyway from watching KZread, but I’ll still do my petty act until he shows me. Until then it’s double knot with tucked laces.

"Kids these days have it so much easier" they say. Well yes isn't that the point? To make things better for those who follow? It's like at one point people did the 180, said "I got mine" and now deliberately make everything harder for the people who are meant to replace/outlive them.

i suffered so you suffer is corruopted and twisted version of "i suffer for next negeration so next negeration suffer for next generation" meaning everybody need to work to make it better for next generation so we can progress

2:24 Most older people couldn't fix a car... Just look at an engine today... They are no longer the mechanical thing they remember... They have computers inside. I remember when my grandad got a new car, and got so angry because he couldn't put fuel in... He was used to the mechanical fuel latch. But the new car used a button by the steering wheel to unlock it.

Best example of why common sense as a universal standard doesn't exist at all (and thus shouldn't be appealed to)

On the one hand, it's the parent's fault for not teaching their kids to learn basic things like reading analogue clocks. But on the other hand, some people seem really quite smug about the fact that they're incapable performing a basic task that is typically considered below school level education. You can teach a 4 year old to read a clock. The "lmao who even cares" attitude to this kinda stuff is like something straight out of Idiocracy. "Back in my day" you'd usually teach your kid to read a clock and tie their shoe laces before school. That way when they actually started school they wouldn't be late for classes. And I'm the same age as Josh, so we're only talking about a generation and a half ago.

@ryanweible9090

Ай бұрын

It's important to remember the actual lesson that idiocracy was supposed to be showing which was not the people were stupid but rather middle of the road people who are coasting by in life neither being great nor bad enough to really have to work, you can't always rely on the smartest person being around, sometimes you're the smartest in the room and you need to take responsibility. That was what the message was not just making fun of people who aren't as smart as you.

@Mizuladin

Ай бұрын

@@ryanweible9090 Uuuuh nah. It's not the smartest person's responsibility in the room to take care of everyone's issues. That's how you breed the incompetence shown in Idiocracy. THAT'S how you make a lazy people.

Very grateful for my dad being the kind of parent that when I asked for help with a problem, he'd just tell me how I can solve it myself. You don't appreciate it as a kid, but when you grow up and see how much more self-sufficient you are compared to your friends who's parents would always jump in to assist... Well... There's the result!

I'm still salty about that time my dad turned off GPS, and told me to get out an old shitty map and guide him instead. I was like, why? I can read a map, I can show you later, there's no point in not using a GPS but he insisted. Not only the map was just terrible, but I suddenly had to read his mind on which route he wanted to take, so I had to ask him, but looking at the map while driving (especially a shitty one) just does not work, so that trip was suddenly so much worse for absolutely no reason. What's even more infuriating is that if I weren't able to read a map and he'd have still forced me then what? Am I supposed to automagically realise what's what? The DIY skills thing also pisses me off. I'd actually love to be able to just MacGyver anything, and I can do a bunch of stuff, but nowhere near as much as my dad. Now, where was I supposed to learn this? Nobody taught me, I'm not going to go out of my way to learn how to instal a toilet unless I am buying one and deciding I'll do it myself, so I'm only going to know things that are useful, and these days, you just buy a new thing instead of repairing it a lot of the times. So if I hear one more older person telling me that my DYI skills are shit I will scream, and I will not tell you that the sound on your PC suddenly doesn't work probably because windows LOVES to switch your default output to your monitor, even if there's no speakers in it.

Its VERY telling when I see parents on facebook posting stuff like that, like okay your kid can't do something. Great parenting!

I am Gen X and I could read before I went to school, it was a long time later I learnt to tie my shoelaces and read an analogue clock, could not get my head round it, also never learnt to shoe a horse never having had access to a forge or a horse. But I can program a VCR and use Yellow pages ( its an index) also I was brought up with home computers from the early days, Pong anyone? Your modern smartphones do not frighten me, I just don't spend my entire life looking down at it rather than where I am walking. And I feel sorry for modern kids because they don't have the freedom we had as kids, because from what I can tell their parents were totally taken in by the propaganda that Paedos were lurking under every bush on every street corner ready to pounce so their parents kept them inside never let them walk anywhere and let the screens bring up their kids. The kids would be fine if they were allowed to be , their parents just didn't let them have the childhood they had themselves.

1:54 If the VCR comes out of the box with a manual, and the TV in question has VGA ports, I can do that. On top of that, if the pizza place still exists and didn't change their number, I may be able to achieve this. Without knowing the specific pizza place, I'd be scouring the Pi- section of the yellow pages for a while I guess.

"I suffered so you should suffer," is literal villain shit. And yet people parade around the mindset like its some kind of enlightened ideal. And its infuriating.

My old man was a real man's man. Said no real man needed "that ewd birds'n'bees talk". Ses to see me grow up right 'ed get meh a good scewlin "Suck-an'a-Squeeze! a Bang-an'a-Blow!" Damned if'n 'e wasn't right, got me hams durty, often greased up to me elbows. I wore the patched nees out be'fornightly. I'll be proud to give the same life lessons to my own eight kids.

you have extremely valid points (as always) unfortunately... when I, or others like me, try to teach the younger generation anything, it's always "ok boomer". it's extremely hard to teach someone anything when they already think they know everything. Give me someone willing to learn, and I'll LITERALLY do all I can to help them in that endeavor... 100%

@wesleywyndam-pryce5305

Ай бұрын

odds are if you're getting ok boomered that its your own fault. its not a reaction to you trying to share information its either your method attitude or that the information itself is now outdated or useless. as always its probably not everybody else, its probably you.

@UllrT

Ай бұрын

@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 i would love to see the equation you used to calculate those odds. Seems like a made up statistic to try to prove a point you want to be true. But thank you for your feedback none the less.

I'm a "I taught myself" person. But I did that because I grew up in extreme isolation and with abusive parents. I'm absolutely not gonna do that to my kid. Of course I wish I had someone to teach me.

"I used to be with it, then they changed what 'it' was. Now what's it is confusing and scary! And it will happen to you too!"

As someone on the front end of 'Millennial', I would do alright on the whole rotary phone/yellow pages thing. Might take me a bit of fiddling because I haven't touched one since I was in early elementary school. That said, a lot of Gen Z losing skills compared to Boomers isn't entirely fair to drop on the Boomers - Gen Z's parents are Gen X and early Millennials. And it's their parents not passing on things that aren't essential because there's so much that needs to be passed on that applies more for kids to function in the world that's coming into being now. And it's both good and sad, because it does mean we are losing functional knowledge that I think is still valuable, but it also means we are growing and facing new problems.

I'm worried about how my generation (gen z) can't afford to have kids. I'd like to have the option of having kids if I choose to, but there's 100% no way I can afford it. I mean, many of us can't afford to live in general. We're collectively becoming hopeless because of how the generations before us have screwed us out a future home, being able to afford children, being able to regularly afford to eat, let alone being able to afford to eat healthily, and don't even get me started on rent. I don't know how we can survive under these conditions

This is how a society dies, not with a bang but with people who can't read a clock.

Question is why would you need to do things the old way, most of the time you can't even if you wanted to, so why bother learning

My annoyance with people who say things like 'schools dont teach you how interest works'. We did get taught it in a more generally applied way, you've either forgotten the skill or havent made the connection. Ive worked alot of jobs, and the majority of the skills I've gained, you just aren't going to learn in a school environment.

Commen sense is what ever people want it to be in the moment except what the phrase implies.

My parents never had to hunt woolly mammoths, i think they had it too easy.

My coworker thinks I'm amazing and super smart when it comes to electronics/tech, when in reality I just had some minor training and have used phones and computers most of my life. Meanwhile, this same guy can thread a trailer into a toght dock, with inches between wall, trailer, and semi truck like it's nothing (no other driver can do what he does).

Great topic and I enjoyed it, thanks Josh !

I figure often it comes down to like this: Grandparent was actively doing the thing. Parent was doing the thing with grandparent and thus learned it. Once parent had own family (you) he maybe did the thing once and you were there holding the flashlight (wrongly). So you didn't learn it whatsoever.

The "ten to ten" music is called The William Tell Overture, Josh, and it was the title music for The Lone Ranger. It was also used in A Clockwork Orange, but we won't talk about that because this is a family stream.

I learned that generational hate was even documented in Ancient Greece, that was very eye opening for me

0:46 Poor Jerma, took a stray right to the noggin there

Teach yourself, how i learnt, now i have myself to blame.

They're just mad that their child's participation trophies ended up not being valuable.

Ive worked with both a 62 year old that couldnt read an analogue clock and a 19 year old, this was at the same time. It was a real shit show when i took a day off.

Josh really started blasting in this one

Some of this yes, but there is also a significant amount of learned helplessness. As a Jr High teacher the battle with apathy and complete inability to remember things you've said and showed dozens of times is overwhelmingly fatiguing. The number that can fluently read is down significantly and, as an A/V and Robotics teacher, they barely know how to use computers at all. In a 1:1 district :(

Truth Josh! "Common knowledge" isn't common enough in this world where too many claim Right to Entitlement.

i saw a video that made one very good point clear; kids are not being taught practical skills, everything is being focused on less important stuff. like Kids could benefit a lot more if they were taught everyday life skills and not focusing so much on advanced math and such.

It's not that we expect them to be able to use all sorts of tech, it's just that a lot of kids these days lack technical intuition. Because a lot of them are glued to smart phones and tablets, and rarely do they take on technical interests. A pleasant counter-example: my 6 yo nephew figured out all by himself how my 3D printer works, without even seeing it function. My brother, his father, even though he's been around computers and electronic devices more than half his life, could not. My nephew also likes to build things, and sometimes he makes things that should be incomprehensible for a kid his age, that doesn't hang around tech stuff.

@niqhtt

Ай бұрын

That is a GT level thing and absolutely cannot be attributed broadly

The best twist is when you actually start learning DIY by yourself, you start seeing how shit they actually were at DIY.

Common sense is things like object permanence or something like that, very basic stuff. If you see a person walk out of a room, you don't instantly assume they're deleted from the universe and gone from reality forever, you understand they've left the room. They do exist, but you can't directly see them at the moment, they exist somewhere outside your field of view.

Children are a product of the world they are born into. It's very easy to push all of the blame onto the parents for children being certain ways, when in reality, we live in a more online, interconnected, technologically advanced world that disfavors face to face interaction than we used to. Parents are responsible for raising their children, but it's undeniable that the world we have built year after year has a profound impact as well. We have this sort of catch-22 where you can't blame the children for the world they were born into, you can't blame individual parents for failing to completely fight against the changes the world has gone through and raise their children exactly as they were raised, and you can't entirely blame big corpos because their success is because it's clearly what the people wanted. There is a whole cornucopia of problems and things to shift blame at but it's impossible to pinpoint anything, because to pinpoint suggests that all the blame can be focused at a single point on a pin in the first place. Things will course correct. If we are finding that we lack skills in one generation and it becomes a genuine problem... People will course correct. They'll force themselves to learn, and taking that lesson, pass it on to their children. Think of it like a wavy graph, the needs of "common" skills will ebb and flow. That in and of itself isn't alarming to me. What frustrates me is the strange need some people have to blame the youngest generation. There's a level of Nature vs. Nurture going on to be sure, and I think that sure, they could improve. They're people, and it's not right to simply pretend all their flaws are the fault of the generation before them. But at the same time, it's entirely unfair for parents who, instead of spending time with their children, handed them an ipad to say that kids these days don't understand how to interact with people. I also recall a more personal experience of someone asking someone in their early 20s why they "didn't just buy a house when the prices were good." Because they were 5 years old, dude. That's why. The slop we feed our gluttonous egos with is gross.

I can't read an analogue clock at 24 years old, and I don't care. The only time it's mattered was in my HSC exams, where it was the only clock available. By that time I was so fresh out of fucks to give for school that I quoted the entirety of Doris Day's Que Sera in the creative writing within a phoned-in story, but that's beside the point. I consciously allow for that lapse in my knowledge since it is inconsequential in my daily life. If I need the time, I can get it from my phone, my PC, the microwave, my car, my alarm clock. There is no situation where I would need to know the time down to a minute accuracy and not have access to at least one of those things.

An analogue clock is just common sense though, as it's very logical. At first glance you can immediately see two hands pointing at numbers around the edge, so if you already know about time, you should be able to work out that one is for minutes and the other is for hours. You may get it the wrong way, but then after around 10 minutes or so, you should then be able to notice the longer one is moving faster. So then that tells you it must be the quicker measure of time, minutes. So yeah I'd say it should be common sense, assuming you already know how time works.

Let's not forget when you see those equations on facebook, and people go "Back in my day, we didnt have this new maths, the answer is this!". What on earth is new maths? Maths shouldn't give you different answers. If you mean orders of operations, thats definitly older than you

funniest thing happened a year or two ago - some highschool aged chick was trying to tap pay but her chip broke. So she had to swipe it....ahhh i remember learning how to swipe a card, gotta hold it flush and all the way down. Anyways yea it was fun standing behind her for like 2 or 3 min while she figured it out

Actually so true

Im gen Z and I had VHS, analog TV's and the yellow pages.

What you say about cycles of suffering is true but also kids could learn to read a clock

I'm from a generation that knows how to burn CD's and can use the most modern phones. and still know how old things work too. Nobody taught me a goddamn thing i learned it all by myself. i get wanting to have universal excuses. but some people are just legitimately dumb and work hard to keep it that way.

Idk man, while I agree with your point, theres still an ASTONISHING amount of things that shouldnt NEED to be taught to people in their late teens to early 20s, like dont stand in the middle of the road when theres cars coming, which has happened an alarming amount of times with the people I work with... While yes theres things that do need to be taught but theres things that should be basic survival instinct

I'd love to teach someone to cook for lessons on how to use my smartphone. LOL.

yeah, it is so strange. Older generation blames younger generation and then younger generation says older one not understand them but then that very generation do the same thing to the next generation. And the cycle of blame continue

oh please. im still using a sundial

I was 99% sure this was going to be a Path of Exile video based on the title

The thing is those that claimed they suffered and that our generation is weak didn't actually suffer all that much. In the western hemisphere, at least. Boomers had it the easiest of any generation by sacrificing everybody who came after them.

It's your fault josh, you quit teaching😅

No, that's high noon fren

I knew that.

Oh boy...

I do like Josh. So when I say this, don't think that I don't. But he does come across as opinionated sometimes and I mean this as constructive criticism. Because in this clip, when he speaks about how people not having to learn what previous generations had to being a good thing and how he says it makes me think he doesn't know what institutionalised abuse is. Now if he reads this (which I doubt) he might be shocked because he may know. But again, because he came across as opinionated, it seemed to me like he doesn't. Because I went through institutionalised abuse growing up and now I don't know how to function as an adult and get anxious doing basic day-to-day stuff because people wouldn't let me do things for myself or even go out and do things. So, from my personal perspective, not allowing younger generations the opportunity to go and learn from difficult experiences and to grow stronger from them can lead to adults who find it difficult to function. There's a balance which is an understanding that didn't come across here...

ofc I don't know how to fix a car. My family was too poor to ever afford one, so i never got the experience to do anything with it. How is that my fault

josh just keep getting more based each video that hat is working its magic

Video title I thought was common knowledge

that means the teacher isnt teaching them ...i learned to read a analog clock from my teacher

Computer literacy is falling as well because of this mentality. It’s “common knowledge” how to use a desktop computer, so no one is teaching the younger generations how to use a desktop computer. And with everything moving to automated mobile and web apps, the kids aren’t being forced to teach themselves how to use a desktop computer.

Can someone explain to me how you could possibly read that clock as 4:20? Or is that just a blaze it joke and completely unrelated?

@exvex5108

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No idea. No matter how i rotate it... its not making sense.

@etherraichu

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It makes more sense if you go to one of his streams. People like to make jokes about things that are obviously wrong or annoying. Josh encourages this behavior. The most common situation is people telling him to look in an oven to find an item, even when there are absolutely no ovens in the area.

@exvex5108

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@@etherraichu Ahh its that british humour that makes no sense.

Common knowledge? Nah i want that very rare or legendary knowledge. Who drops that?

"Common sense" is a thing people use when someone has a skill they don't and vice versa, because I'm supposed to just "know". "Common courtesy" is a thing people use when they want you to spend money/time on something you are trying to save up/do something else. People want you to do the right thing because THEY can't be bothered to do it, or when it's convenient for them.

@UltimaLuminaire

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Yoooo a shiren fan! Hope you're enjoying serpent coil island.

Uncommonwealth 👀

Nice

Nice hat

Josh continues to be omega-based.

WAY TO MANY people don't actually know how to read clocks.....

People are losing the ability to write cursive. I still keep practicing cursive writing regularly in VRChat so i would not forget it and am shocked that 98% of people who react to my writing say they have no idea how to write and at least a quarter of those no idea how to read it.

The point about not actively teaching the next generation things is two fold, both are at fault. Previous gen for not actively teaching the next gen, and the the next gen for not having any ambition/motivation to seek out said knowledge. Its honestly worse with the newer gen since they have endless resources to seek out said information/knowledge.

alll these young adults living with their parents. Disgusting! Okay, go try buying a house. Right now. Get the loan make the budget. Good luck.

You were not supposed to wear this hat while spitting facts

@MyVanir

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Is that more common sense?

@orangenasa

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@@MyVanir Not with this generation apparently...

@MyVanir

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@@orangenasa Well, that's one good thing about this generation then.

Thats why im glad im Gen X I can do it all.

Common sense/knowledge is not common.

I did that whole list of boomer 💩 as a kid. Along with cursive, these are all still very relevant skills, especially when tax time time comes around...