90% of old people have nothing to teach you

They aren't "old and wise"--they lived their boomer lives in boomer times, when everything was different. They didn't even have access to the Internet so most everything they learned in their entire lives could be learned online in a year or two.
The really exceptional 10% or so, sure, THEY are old and wise because
1. They're unusually intelligent to begin with
2. They had a lot of experiences that are timeless in the lessons they teach
That's just a small subset. The majority of old people are just random doofs with nothing even vaguely relevant to tell you.

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>The majority of old people are just random doofs with nothing even vaguely relevant to tell you.
Kinda like you, except you're not old.

Ok, so? What are you whining about? I'm sure young people felt the same when books were invented, or whatever. Deal with it zoomer

You got no way of telling any of that that either way man. I could be old as dirt or a zoomer for all you know. I could have had a lot of experience or very little. So your little critique there is meaningless.

True. Old smelly fags have a limited world view. It be like asking a 120 year old caveman advice for the current era

I bet they did, and they would've probably been right.
My point is don't assume people are wise because they are old. Plenty of people live a long time without getting wisdom.

10% is an extremely generous estimate. But yes, most human beings are worthless and without any insight to share with you.

I do believe each person has some interesting information that can be extracted from their idiot brains... insights about the mechanics of this society and their own psychology. However, their perspectives and opinions are usually ENTIRELY based on ego-defense mechanisms. Each think that their job mattered, their actions mattered, and somehow they will be remembered after death. It's a joke.

I would say less that 1 out of 100 people is worthwhile. They are usually in the top of the IQ curve, but even there, people are coping hard. Best combination for a decent human is high IQ, serious trauma, and psychedelic drug use all combined into one person

>don't assume people are wise because they are old
Agree. They have life experience but not necessarily wisdom. Some are wise enough to know that. The older I get the more I understand how little I know. Pretty stressful desu

>Best combination for a decent human is high IQ, serious trauma, and psychedelic drug use all combined into one person
How did you come do this conclusion? Sounds like the protagonist of a comic of something

>How did you come do this conclusion?
he is just describing himself

>They didn't even have access to the Internet so most everything they learned in their entire lives could be learned online in a year or two
I was kind of shocked when I became an adult and actually started to talking to "successful" boomers. They're clueless. They know about as much as a Romanian villager.

Literally every single one of their success stories is "I worked for like 10 years and then bought [house/small business/boat] and then got wealthy for almost no effort.

I am totally fine with stupid people having money again if we can have lives even 75% as easy and fun as the baby boomers. I'm 10x as educated as the average boomer and I can only dream of their lifestyle.

>Sounds like the protagonist of a comic of something
Every top-tier friend or romantic partner I've had has checked all of those boxes.
Being smart but raised without trauma leads to boring people or people who are so neurologically normal they can't understand how deep suffering can go. They've never seen the bottom or understood the impulse to commit suicide. To me they are like NPCs but with high processing power.

Ideally the person has had a full on mental breakdown or psychotic episode. The psychedelic use indicates high openness and bravery. They also usually come out of the trips with insights into life and the materialistic side of themselves destroyed.

It's a good formula

You're describing the US now right? Where I live my parents and grandparents had pretty standard jobs and none of those boats etc, they scraped by and a decent life with no excesses. How were boomers in the US able to get the house, car, boat etc? I don't get it.

Their egos cannot and will never allow the idea that they had it "easy" into their brains. No amount of information will allow an average boomer to come to terms with that reality.

Instead they sit, retired, thinking about how they are big and important winners in life, and how they possessed some magical quality that is missing from the younger generations. Usually they will equate it to their masculinity, which is laughable, but understandable. They mostly all obese and spend their entire day watching television and trending to their lawn. The lawn and all the accoutrements of retirement exist solely to service their egos. "I am successful" they tell themselves. "I retired because I am intelligent and responsible, I won the game." Reality is they lost our of what mattered decades ago, it's just way too late for them to fix it

Ok, so what do these highly interesting people do with their lives, after these insights? NEETing and shitposting on Any Forums? Can't say I've ever met a person ticking all boxes, not that I know of at least.

>How were boomers in the US able to get the house, car, boat etc? I don't get it.
Being highly paid at every level due to technological and geographic limitations.
Now with immigration, internet, and outsourcing, Americans are getting paid much less.
Just imagine whatever jobs your family has paying dicks what they currently do. That is life in boomer mode

>paying dicks what they currently do. That is life in boomer mode
paying double*

Yeah, there have actually been studies which show that old age and wisdom don't go hand-in-hand. Wisdom is more of an individual trait that is present fairly early in life - maybe childhood, at latest early adulthood.

I think everyone benefits from age and experience to some extent. A wise 20 year old will likely be an even wiser 35 year old, and someone who's a dunce at 20 will likely be more mature in some ways at 55. But it's more of a change from "wise to wiser" or "dumb to less dumb," not "dumb/average to wise."

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Ok. I guess the post-war 50s and 60s with everything rebuilding and developing was great in the west. Perhaps 70s too but that brought the oil crisis and killed off a few really large industry sectors around here. 80s were financial boom/crisis, great if you were in finance I suppose not so much for regular people. Maybe in the US though?

Not sure what's average but people 20-30 seem to struggle a lot. I must've been lucky because I'm much much better off than my parents were but me and wife have better paying jobs. Still think the 50s and 60s seemed to be the best though, but I probably shouldn't complain.

What's even "wisdom" in that research? And how do you measure/determine how wise someone in relation to their age?

Not him but actually he can tell a) that you're young, because you refer to old
people as "them," and b) you have nothing even vaguely relevant to tell us, because of the quality of the content of your post.