A May 2021 tweet by Seattle-area CEO Dan Price claimed that Millennials only held 4.8 percent of all wealth, compared to 9 percent for Gen X and 21 percent for Boomers at the same age.
Discourse about “sacrificing the economy” to prevent mass deaths almost immediately got very dark.
On February 20 2019, the Facebook page Pictures in History shared a version of the photograph of a chairlift seen above simply captioned: “Safety standards in the 1960s.” The photograph was not new to the internet, and the meme-style version here was shared to me.me in November 2018 and by BoingBoing in September 2018. That …
On December 22, 2018, the Facebook page Ethan Berk shared an image referencing baby boomers, older people in Japan, and the attitudes of the two groups: The image involved several components, including commentary at the top, a purported tweet from BBC News, and subsequent remarks made in reference to the tweet. Together, it read: North …
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