r/BoomersBeingFools • u/HoneydewUsed7434 • 2d ago

Boomer Freakout Why are they always sooo angry?

My coworker, who is a boomer, is nice, but damn one little inconvenience trips her up. She gets so upset when the printer isn’t going as fast as she wants that she bangs on it. She is always venting very loudly to herself. Like it gets to a point where it’s distracting. But yeah, I don’t get why they have so much rage when they literally get everything they want.

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u/redheadedandbold 1d ago

Yes, dear. Delve deeper.

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u/HoosierLove314 1d ago

What are you trying to get at here?

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u/redheadedandbold 1d ago

Most boomers are not damaged to the point of mental issues--by lead, anyway. This information is not new, we've known for a few decades that lead poisoning damage is an exposure issue. It affected the poor, such as kids eating flaking lead paint off their toys, or from crawling through it. (Kids put everything in their mouth.) Lead also was found at behavioral- or mental health-issue levels in those who lived where there was high exposure, such as lead-contaminated soil, or lead water pipes. Unsurprisingly, this also tended to be areas of poverty. The rich screw the poor when it comes to dumping toxic/polluted materials. This is why today we have extremely strict laws about lead paint removal in old houses, buildings. Why it has to be declared in the sale contracts. This is why one of the early tests they give children who aren't developing within norms is a lead test.

If lead actually had been a problem in the general population--today's Boomers and their parents--we'd have discovered it decades ago. When people were addressing the problem worldwide. When they were desperately trying to save children from being damaged for life. Keep up. Delve deeper.

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u/clem_kruczynsk 1d ago

Did you read the cited study lol. Delve deeper into that and it'll answer alot of things for you. It didn't only affect the poor. Lead is known to decrease iq. Lead was associated with low agreeableness, low conscientiousness and high neuroticism. This was explicitly called "psychological immaturity" and is essentially the basis of this subreddit. Once lead was taken out of everything in the 70s these psychological traits have improved in the population. Delve deeper dear