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So that's where all those stupid fuddy duddy quotes by old fogies came from like "a fool and his money are soon parted", "not all that gleams is gold" and "ther
by labrador 4y ago
So that's where all those stupid fuddy duddy quotes by old fogies came from like "a fool and his money are soon parted", "not all that gleams is gold" and "there's a sucker born every minute", but what do those old jerks know. We live in the modern age!
- temp_praneshp 4y agoCareful, you'll get called boomer for quoting those phrases.
- labrador 4y agoBut I am a boomer, but I have to keep explaining to my younger friends that I'm one of the good ones, lol. I've been an environmentalist since I attended the first Earth Day in 1972 yadda yadda
- filoleg 4y agoImo for those people, it is less about the argument of "we live in the modern age, things are different now", and more like "a fool and his money are soon parted[, and i will be the one on the winning side of this partition, not the losing one]" and "there is a sucker born every minute[, but that's not me]". I.e., it isn't about them believing that modern times are different, it is about them believing that they are the ones above the cut, an exception from the average masses, the kind that can thrive in such landscape. Which is the same core premise that's been funding those types of gambles since forever ago.