![When life gives you boomers, just remember... this is why you never loan anyone your tools ever... [697x507 - 465KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/R3LmXY.png){kind=link}
You mean you've never seen a bin with tools for community sharing on the edge of a cliff implying some vague premise that you must build a bridge? How could you even question such a relatable scenario?
I believe it's a metaphor for people preventing the next generation from following their steps.
For example, by gaining success in a free market, and then using the money you made to lobby for laws that make it more difficult to start a business. Lobby for laws that they first have to gain a licence and hire an expensive lawyer to write terms of service and jump through 10 hoops, all before they even made a single dollar.
So if someone makes a cartoon that's vague enough, you could shoehorn any speculative, bias confirming crap into it. Boomers aren't responsible for every piece of legislation. It's not entirely their fault for supporting suffocating legislation either because I rememeber when I was a kid, it was becoming increasingly popular for schools to blame parents for the child's behavior and the parents to blame the school. This started a vicious cycle of reforms where everyone lost a little bit of freedom because everyone wanted to prove they were the good guy in the situation.
Every single generation of people thinks the younger generation of people coming after them are more lazy. Every single generation also thinks they are more clever than the one that preceded themselves. The truth is everyone is a piece of shit regardless of what generation you came from.
In that comic we see a guy building a bridge using up all the trees. He crosses over to more fertile grounds, and then he destroys the bridge. Leaving the other guy without trees nor tools.
Seems like a very straightforward metaphor to me. How would you interpret it?
That's what I originally thought. Didn't even notice the tools thing until now.
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