AdamB wrote:noobtube wrote:If only these "lazy" young people today just lived in the 1980s and 90s. Then, their hard work would pay off.
Maybe. There is hard work, and then there are people who confuse being a gadfly on the internet with it. I'm still trying to determine if you are one of those who feels sorry for themselves and is looking for someone else to blame it on, from the older folk crowd like me, or the younger group crowd. Would you care to venture a generation you were born into, that we might compare that with my old fart generation?
noobtube wrote: I wonder, could it be they are "lazy" because those opportunities, from the 1980s and 90s, don't exist today.
The US was suffering under staggering stagflation in the early 80's, far more opportunity exists today than my formative decades. I will assume you are of the younger crowd for not knowing this viscerally enough to have already experienced bad times, and grew up during or post the go-go 80's and everything that meant. Those of your type born into summer are expected to whine when winter shows up, if not cower in fear because you lack confidence in your ability to do something other than whine about your circumstances.
noobtube wrote:Now we see the results of decades of that mentality. The youth have no future. And, they are getting angry.
<yawn> Cry me a river, I was homeless my last semester in college, and living in storage unit. I wasn't angry. I was focused, and determined. Grow a pair already and stop acting like some spoiled "whaa why can't I have everything for free!!!"
noobtube wrote:You kept saying the markets outperformed gold and cherry-picked a fluke of history. That 20-year period between 1980-2000 was an aberration, due to a number of external factors.
Maybe it was. But those of us who invested in gold when the world was supposedly ending didn't know it in advance. And NOW you want to backtrack on your claim of all gold, all the time. No wonder you are so disappointed with your lot in life, why should YOU have to get where you want to be the hard way, why don't you parents just hand it to you on a silver platter....WHAAA FOR NOOBTUBE...SOMEONE FORGOT TO GIVE HIM HIS SILVER SPOON AT BIRTH.
noobtube wrote:You want to believe those ridiculous "oil" numbers just like you want to believe in "the markets" despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Of course I don't believe the ridiculous numbers YOU think are oil, I believe the ones that ARE oil that your lacking a silver spoon persona couldn't find with a keyboard, a flashlight, and them being a link right there on your own reference. Upon demonstrating such basic internet incompetence, might it be honest to say that your whining is due in part to you making these basic kinds of "can't think for yourself" boners in real life where it matters, and others have noticed?
noobtube wrote:The world doesn't need more Archie Bunkers.
Or children who wouldn't know what to do with an honest days work if you loaned them an illegal immigrant to do it for them.
My childhood was during the wild inflation of the 1970s and early 1980s. That is when I was introduced to gold. Once the uncertainty was gone, people stopped talking about it until the GFC of 2009. If only I had saved in gold, during the 90s, and not squandered my earnings chasing "the market", broadcom, worldcom, enron, arthur andersen, bear stearns, and lehman brothers. Why did the old folks abandon gold for this "market" nonsense?
By the time I realized the difference between money and currency, in 2009, my best earning years were behind me. Anything left was put into precious metals. And, it worked great. Everything was going fine. Then, one day, I decided to go on a boat. And, tragically, and disastrously, lost all my gold and silver in an unfortunate boating accident.
Been angry ever since at all those who try to convince me currency is real, "the markets" create wealth, while all my precious metals are sitting at the bottom of the water.
Now, I spend my days sweeping the floors of the local Blue Cross/Blue Shield, praying for the day to get some scuba gear to go dive and recover all my lost wealth.
Maybe I should just be content that no one was hurt. It certainly must be nice to have real money and not have to sweep floors.
Well, I've got to get back to this "hard" work. Those floors won't sweep themselves.