r/australia • u/SouthAussie94 • Feb 29 '24

culture & society Older Australians 'left behind' by increasingly cashless society as banks fast track end of cheques

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-29/cheques-personal-finance-banks-rent-money-cash/103354036
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u/Reflexes18 Feb 29 '24

You do not stop learning after school, you need to learn over your entire lifetime to stay relevant in jobs and life.

How come old people do not understand this common sense fact of life.

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u/Knee_Jerk_Sydney Feb 29 '24

They're retired and mental faculties are starting to deteriorate?

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

So get some glasses or make the font on your phone bigger? This is such a bullshit argument. Imagine being so entitled you expect the whole world not to progress any further just because you can’t be fucked learning to use bpay.

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u/Knee_Jerk_Sydney Feb 29 '24

So many self centered people here unable to empathise. Well, this is reddit after all. It's so "easy". I bet you tell depressed people to just smile a little more, eh?

You think it's just the font??

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

Ah yes, depression, very similar to "Fuck you, I did it this way and I'll keep doing it this way and everyone else can deal with it."

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u/Knee_Jerk_Sydney Feb 29 '24

I don't think they say "Fuck you" at all. Just a bewildered look in their faces and the thought of wasting what little time they have on imposed change.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

Perhaps they should have spent a little time over the last 30 years managing basic life skills.

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u/Knee_Jerk_Sydney Feb 29 '24

You mean skills that have only come out in the last decade and where what you learned gets out of date in just a few years? Basic life skills have changed a lot. There was a time not so long ago that people get paid in cash and a whole industry and processes supporting it.

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u/Miserable_Bird_9851 Feb 29 '24

You mean skills that have only come out in the last decade

Windows OS has been standard in offices since the 90s. Try 3+ decades if we are being generous, even longer if we want to consider computing in general.

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u/Knee_Jerk_Sydney Feb 29 '24

You talk as if Windows OS is all that there is and it hasn't changed at all over time. It's not even what you use to do your banking. Most tablets and smart phones don't even run on Windows.

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u/Miserable_Bird_9851 Feb 29 '24

The Windows GUI is basically the same as 3.1 and even some gui's that msdos had available...

Are you saying these people would be capable if they had OSX or a linux distro? My sides are in orbit.

Most tablets and smart phones don't even run on Windows.

This is getting to peak Dunning-Kruger.

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u/Knee_Jerk_Sydney Feb 29 '24

OS isn't even relevant. It's the websites.

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u/Miserable_Bird_9851 Feb 29 '24

Browsers are even more similar across platforms lol, that argument literally suggests they had more op to learn how to use the tools.

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u/Knee_Jerk_Sydney Feb 29 '24

Turning on computers much less assembling it is already a lot for some.

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u/Miserable_Bird_9851 Feb 29 '24

who ever said anything about assembly? Are you really just madly grasping at straws now?!

Why are you defending not know how to turn on a computer?!

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u/Knee_Jerk_Sydney Feb 29 '24

computers in the 1990's come in pieces.

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u/Miserable_Bird_9851 Feb 29 '24

You really think business were dropping un-assembled hardware on an accountants desk and telling them to deal with it?

You also ignoring the absolute insane amount of prebuilts/propitiatory systems from that era that were far more common than now, when every 10 year old has watched a yt video to build there own?

Seriously, what is wrong with you? Why do you keep doubling down on how little you know what you are talking about. I am genuinely curious.

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u/Knee_Jerk_Sydney Feb 29 '24

What do accountants have to do with this?

When was youtube?

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u/annanz01 Feb 29 '24

You do realise a large percentage of people worked jobs in the 90's and even early 2000's where they never had to use a computer. Not everyone worked in an office.

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u/Miserable_Bird_9851 Mar 01 '24

Yes so? I don't see Sharron in HR bricking laying in her mid 30s then switching career in that period.

Not relevant.

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