'Fancy unused china sets': Things that will go extinct along with the Baby Boomers

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Sep 8, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

There is no escaping the passage of time, and much as it can seem like the realities of our lives are here to stay at the time, there are plenty of things in this world that will probably cease to exist in a couple of generations. While we may not necessarily live to see the complete downfall of the internet, for example, who knows what the far-flung future may bring? Something a lot of us are going to be around to witness is the extinction of many things that were at the height of popularity when baby boomers were at their peak. This was the subject of a recent AskReddit thread, where people listed many examples that already seemed to be on their way out. We could hope that 'being mean to customer service workers' was one of these, but alas, this can be something that transcends all ages and generations.

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    What is likely to die along with the baby boomers generation?
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    girlfunky91 Right, the aunt memes are going to disappear.
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    CityOutlier Timeshares
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    thundering-horse Fancy unused china sets
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    Datsun Tigger What we think of as their wealth. That's not going to come to us. It's going to go to the hospitals, to the assisted living facilities, the nursing homes and all the healthcare things that are slowly sucking us dry. If we don't have a crisis because of rampant Medicare fraud, mismanagement, venture capitalists and corps buying all the hospitals, insurance companies and nursing facilities, it will be because of staffing, low pay, and increased patient:caregiver ratios. Healthcare in
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    Empty_Issue_3237 Landline phones
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    goodlittlesquid QVC
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    Efficient_Star_1336 On a less pithy note, a pretty big chunk of American industrial knowledge. It's not even just declining educational quality - there are plenty of young guys with the intelligence and work ethic to keep things running, but every available incentive pushes them away from things like chemical and industrial engineering and into tech, where they face fewer regulatory obstacles to get started and can make much more money in a faster-paced environment.
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    The result of this is that the last two or three boomers who know how to synthesize some obscure lubricant necessary to keep some factory in Pennsylvania running are going to retire, and one of them's going to get hired on as an outside consultant until his brain can no longer function even a fraction of the time, and then that factory's just going to close down forever because there is nobody in the pipeline capable of replacing him. Same deal for all kinds of obscure maintenance tasks. It is t
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    catholicbaker Readers Digest magazine.
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    nonesuchnotion Porcelain figurine collections
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