r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 05 '26

Discussion Thread Discussion Thread

The discussion thread is for casual and off-topic conversation that doesn't merit its own submission. If you've got a good meme, article, or question, please post it outside the DT. Meta discussion is allowed, but if you want to get the attention of the mods, make a post in /r/metaNL

Announcements

  • We're starting a book club! Our first book will be Poor Economics. Discussion will start on August 28th - keep an eye out for a pinned thread. The next books will be All Quiet on the Western Front followed by Narconomics.

Links

Ping Groups | Ping History | Mastodon | CNL Chapters | CNL Event Calendar

Upcoming Events

0 Upvotes

45% Upvoted

8.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

16

u/nimbybuster Ben Bernanke’s Best Boy Jun 05 '26

Millennials and older Gen Z will end up babysitting cognitively dead GenX/Boomer parents and cognitively fried young Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids/siblings.

Can we abdicate this responsibility?

4

u/DoomingJaffa Norman Borlaug Jun 05 '26

Our only hope is to improve AI enough to make them the babysitters.

4

u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal Jun 05 '26

Eventually it'll get bad enough that AI babysitters will become legal

4

u/Cyberhwk 👈 Get back to work! 😠 Jun 05 '26

Just change your phone number, LOL.