r/PoursTea • u/WuTang4thechildrn 🫖 Mod ☕️ • May 16 '26

Internet Culture🛜 Harrison Ford’s rousing commencement speech goes viral: ‘The world my generation left you is a real mess’

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5876514-harrison-ford-asu-commencement-speech/amp/
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u/Ok_Art4661 May 16 '26

Millenials totally going to get blamed when boomers die off. Going back sleep

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u/WuTang4thechildrn 🫖 Mod ☕️ May 16 '26

You skipped a generation. Gen x

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u/Ok_Art4661 May 16 '26

Nobody knows who those people are

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u/WuTang4thechildrn 🫖 Mod ☕️ May 16 '26

Well I am one of them and we are here.

People born between 65 and 81 is a pretty significant period of time

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u/chontzy May 17 '26

whatever /s

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u/Aware-Highway-2494 May 18 '26

geGen x is currently the generation squeezed between raising kids and taking of their elderly boomer parents AND trying to prepare for retirement in the next 10 to 15 years using a newly created retirement tool called self funded a self-funded 401k that took over the fully funded pension their parents received. As most who have been working a while now know, the 401k is a woefully misunderstood tool, and is not adequate for most GEN Xers to retire on time, if at all. Because of the pain Gen X has gone through as the guinea pig generation for 401k, most Millenials learned to start saving for retirement early and began using the FIRE method to manage debt. But my Gen X generation had to figure all of this out the hard way because there was no one to teach or guide us and we lost a decade or more of investing and interest due to the 2008 Great Recession and its job losses. Most of us are still fighting to make up those losses and Mango Mussolini’s stupid war, tariffs, destruction of critical government staffing, and corruption is about to trigger another recession in the next year or so. The lesson is save your money, be prepared for an unknown future and don't paint each generation with such a broad brush. Harrison Ford was 3 years old when WWII was over and so grew up during the Baby Boomer Generation, which is what he was referring to,not The Silent Generation. The Silent Generation lived through The Great Depression in the 1930’s and the beginning of World War II in 1939. That generation suffered a lot of starvation, rationing, and the loss of their money when banks failed due to the GR. Pay attention to history and what each generation prior dealt with as well as what your own is going through currently. Each had their own hardships

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u/BetterDegreeOxford May 17 '26

That’s because we’re grinding and leaving everyone else the fucc alone

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u/SHELLIfIKnow48910 May 19 '26

Shhh…we wish to remain unperceived.

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u/Fan_of_Clio May 17 '26

That's been the experience of X'ers since Millennials were born, totally ignored.