Show Notes
"Generation X and the millennials both tried to do everything right, according to what the boomers told them was the path forward: save money, study hard, get a ‘job’. At every stage we got rugpulled. Most of us have nothing to show for any of that.
Zoomers looked at what happened to Gen-X and the millennials and said, quite rationally, fuck that."
~ John Carter
What happens when you raise an entire generation on the promise of a second marshmallow – and never deliver? John Carter's piece reframes the tired boomer/zoomer spending war through the lens of the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment, and the implications are genuinely devastating. Is high time preference a moral failing, or the only rational response to a system that has been lying to young people their entire lives? And if broken social trust is the real disease, can sound money actually cure it – or is some of the damage already permanent?
Check out the original article: When the Experimenter Fails the Marshmallow Test by John Carter (Link: https://barsoom.substack.com/p/when-the-experimenter-fails-the-marshmallow)
References from the episode
Number Go Down by Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers – this read fits hand in glove with today's piece, and if this episode hit for you, that one will too (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/fLqds61ds9YbsnqGOkE8)
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