"@AngryBlackLady", who was a wall street foreclosure lawyer during the housing crisis, tweeted:

Seriously Gen X was built to last. If you survived ya childhood, you are a magical being. Remember how swings didn't used to have shit underneath them but concrete? If you fell off, you would just have nasty scrapped knees.

Generational theory is an essential part of fascism because they can't admit they're bourgeois class traitors who want the poor to die.

      • BOK6669 [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        If a participation trophy throws you off enough to believe that you can't fail, then you have bigger issues. How do you watch your parents go to work everyday and make a variable income or go to school and have your effort reflected, and not understand failure? How do you lose a game and not percieve failure? I guess I understand that you're seeing it as parents who aggressively coddle their children, that's not right either. But I don't really come at it from this angle and I think that that style of parenting has to be in the minority.

        While it can be argued that participation trophies really don't do anything, I believe that they encourage sticking with something and seeing value in something beyond WIN/LOSE. Drowning in that binary makes it hard for people to focus on skill building fundamentals and frustrates discipline. In the long run, I'd argue that the obsession of win/lose is detrimental to a person fulfilling their potential.

        More importantly, it's hard to foster actual passion for something that puts you in that state of win or lose by default. It's hard to care about Violin when your only relation to it is your tiger parent telling you to practice it several hours a day.

        I'm of the opinion that anything that encourages skill growth is better than anything that makes the process miserable or deincentivizes skill growth.