It’s crazy how fast this decade has happened. I think people will remember it for the social media explosion
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Mohammed Islam, Long Island teenager who made $72 M picking stocks. Already owns property in Manhattan and bought a BMW without a license yet
had to google this nobody. it was a hoax. he's the only one that will remember.
The day it happened I remember everyone was talking about it. Then once revealed to be full of shit, it quickly fell off.
he was a kid man
anyone know where this guy is now?
God only knows. I was looking for him but he has absolutely no social media and LinkedIn is private.
The only evidence (after extremely deep searching) that I could find was a graduation ceremony for his high school and he was in it. People were clapping for him and not booing.
Fuck i am getting old lol ://// god i hate my life but to answer the question :
Obama Trump Usian Bolt Pats 28 point comeback Snapchat Instagram Fortnite Golden State Warriors dominance Lebron winning a chip for his hometown Raps winning a chip
Ton of other stuff but i think sports is the easiest to remember
The Eagles winning a Super Bowl with Nick Foles
You forgot the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series.
Getting my first win in fortnite > getting my first internship in IB
Haters will say I'm lying
The long hours the selfless investment banking analysts put in to provide liquidity in the market.
My new goal is to do memorable work (not even in IB, this transcends most industries).
Not just memorable, but God’s
That's only if you work at JPM
I didn't get interested because I'm here to change the world.
I'm here to change my bank account.
getting married going bald career moves packers super bowl victory killing OBL first non politician/military president getting elected beginnings of legalization of pot gay marriage first AIDS patient cured smartphones first 20% market decline since GFC ecommerce changing the way we shop and spend
Eisenhower would like a word with ya
forgot about that, thanks
Lot of people listing sports shit. I wonder what percentage of the U.S. population gives a shit about team sports.
well the US population is 325mm and the super bowl gets around 100mm viewers, so I'd put it at somewhere between 40-50% of the population cares about team sports in some fashion, realizing that some people don't watch the super bowl for any number of reasons, but may watch other team sports.
You really figure it's that high? That's massive.
Not all 100M viewers care about the game. The Super Bowl is more like a big party, a lot of people just like to gather that day, watch the commercials and have fun
I actually think most of the sports stuff people are listing are likely to be way less iconic than in past decades because of the explosion of social media and the fragmentation of audiences. Aside from maybe Lebron's block against the Warriors or Kawhi's Game 7 shot, not sure all that much will be remembered. The last iconic football moment I can think of is David Tyree's helmet catch, and I say this as a Pats fan.
I'm not even a football fan, but not giving the ball to Marshawn Lynch on the goal line ...?
Trump election and ongoing investigations involved QE infinity Negative interest rates
Podcasts
"New age" / minimalist social media (Snap, Instagram, etc.)
(Rise and fall of) EDM and club bangers. IS terrorism Refugee crisis in the western world
Fake news / disinformation campaigns on social media
Legitimization of e-sports
MMA popularity
Brexit shitshow
China
Right-wing populism
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yellow mother fucking claw.
Cardi B, Post Malone, Drake, DaBaby, Lil Nas X
Would rather fw old school Hardwell anyday though
Dot com bubble 2 Quran hai tu hubahu
The "lost decade" of the USA. Rahm Emanuel was actually right when he said "never let a serious crisis go to waste." Unfortunately the 2010's will be remembered as the worst possible American response to the global financial crisis of 08-09, much like Japan's lost decade of the 90's.
10 years of political and economic malaise and inaction in the face of the global financial crisis (no systemic changes made), no meaningful structural reforms, continuous expensive Middle Eastern wars while no investment in infrastructure or education, and no long-term planning. This while our largest political and economic rival(s) continued to grow, improve and invest. We won't reap the seeds of this inaction until the 2050's history books look back on a completely wasted opportunity.
This is where I was.
Yes, we've had the longest bull market ever. But did we do anything for that? Or are we simply living in a real-life, extended dead cat bounce after the horrific fall from 07-09.
Economically nothing has really changed: we still export jobs, import technology, and are still by and large in some form of dispute with a middle east country. The banks are running wild, the automakers still can't make 2 dimes from a quarter, and our commodity prices haven't substantially changed in a decade.
The only reason why anything appears different is that the Fed has flooded the street with easy cash, not any structural change.
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Fannie and Freddie need to go. We don't need the government to make a market in any other type of debt security. Only thing the GSEs are good for are giving Maxine Waters duffel bags of cash.
Well, to be fair, there was an attempt at financial reform and a pretty massive attempt at reforming the healthcare system.
The many conservative patriots we have in this country made sure none of that got off the ground, or at least had the good sense to roll it all back to the status quo ante as soon as possible. After all, can't have reform of a broken system, it's un-American! The Founding Fathers decreed that American society is perfect as is, don't need no stinking changes.
Lil / Yung [anything] Vaping Craft beer Balenciaga copycat sneakers 100% vegan Identity / gender politics Sharing economy (Uber, Seamless et al.)
This reeks of someone that wasn't around for the early 2010s.
Did you just assume that I wasn't around for the early 2010s?
This is like the last 15% of the 2010s
Clownish to think Balenciaga sneakers defined the decade smh.
The golden age/final hurrah of the internal combustion engine
Test
A President winning the election from Twitter lol
Harambe.
#DicksOut
Honestly boredom. Nothing that exciting happened. Decade of people spending their lives on their phones.
This is a good thing (John Adams paraphrased: "I study politics and war that my children might study art and science"). But idle hands are the devil's workshop. This is the freest, most prosperous generation in the history of mankind and we are angrier than ever. And those who came before us--the giants on whose shoulders we stand--are despised by our culture for their shortcomings. The ungratefulness of this generation for all that it has is awe-inspiring--or jaw-dropping.
I think it's amazing for our society how prosperous we are, but I think it's terrible for the individual character.
This isn't true, at all. There is a lot of anger towards the Boomer generation, which is entirely justified; folks roughly aged 50-75 right now are among the most spoiled, coddled, selfish people the world has ever seen. They have accomplished nothing. They've given birth to a society of extreme selfishness, of disregard for the cost of comfort. Can you name a meaningful accomplishment of the Boomer Generation? WWII/Korea predate them. Civil Rights was the previous generation. Moon landings and the associated scientific breakthroughs predated them.
They'll be remembered for being born with every advantage, wanting more, and screwing over future generations by kicking the can of their own luxuries down the road while also pulling the ladder of economic opportunity up after them.
Aside from that I think most people recognize and are grateful for the fact that previous Americans have built a great society, even if progress has been slow or backwards in some ways.
Marshawn lynch not getting the ball at the one yard line. Easily a top sports moment of the decade(more so than the atlanta comeback)
The Packers coach should have thought of that last night when calling 4 pass plays at the one. He doesn’t have Lynch but still.
Rise of Populism Globally (Trump / Brexit / India - Hindustan)
Stephen Curry / Lebron James
Rise of China
Rise & Dominance of Social Networks
First Pic of Black Hole
It's really just the decade that everyone started getting offended at everything for the sake of being offended. I don't want to sound like a boomer here, but I can blame social media for that.
lmfao you sound like such a boomer but its true coming from a gen z. Social media has fucked us all
Fucking YOGA PANTS
More like the 2000s, right? I love them so much.
Political Polarization
Mass Immigration
Growing Inequality
Increasing Social Alienation (rates of depression & anxiety skyrocketing)
Longest Bull Market in History
Rise of Social Media
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the decade you lost your virginity
What will most people remember? The Kardashians.
The rise of cryptocurrencies and blockchain
The fall of the establishment socio-political order; Trump on the right but you could even say the leftist revolt against the corporatist Democrat party establishment
The rise of social media and how anyone can be a local celebrity now with Instagram
The rise and also end of the media's fixation on millennials with Gen Z coming to prominence culturally at the end of the decade
Cultural shift in music with EDM dominating the first half of the decade and moving back to hip hop to the other half. Hip hop was dead for a while after Eminem lost his edge, but now the new generation with Travis Scott, Kendrick, Migos, etc., have really made this the biggest genre that there is now. You can hate on mumble rap if you want, but you can't hate on Young Thug's bank account.
Cities: Rise of Austin and Nashville. Start of revitalization in Los Angeles and Detroit. San Francisco has peaked out and I predict will fall next decade.
Trump Obama Instagram Memes Netflix Game of Thrones Cryptos Data everything The whole ATL LGBT-adjacent rap scene 'Wokeness' Climate change/pollution
There haven't been all that many "larger-than-life" U.S. presidents, yet we've had 2 in a row for the entire decade. I wonder if this is a blip or if it's a trend.
I don't think we'll be in a position to answer that for another 25 years.
Look at Bush. People thought he was the worst thing ever by the time he left office. Now he seems to have settled into a kind of third quartile forgettable obscurity. Everything seems of historic importance while it's happening.
I think that ranking will remain in flux. There seems to be a big effort from the establishment of both parties to forget how the Iraq war happened and how it's linked to the situation today. I have a suspicion the history books may yet treat GWB harsher than the current guy.
The beginning of the end: the decade that artificial intelligence began silently taking peoples' jobs and people were too enamored by social media and career milieu to even notice the takeover.
The TV series 'Billions'
When the fuck is Season 5 coming out anyway?
That show is boring af imo
Nose beers
Wu-tang financial
K dot
3 doors down playing the inauguration
What is aleppo
Robert Kraft staying with the pats post sex crime, AB getting kicked off the pats post sex crime
Ur mom
Barclays power and utilities being most prestigious group on street with highest per-analyst megafund placement in history
The only real answer is Trump, or nothing at all. Because let's be honest, people have an attention span that lasts about 15 min.
Maybe 15 secs thanks to IG
Fake news
Political Polarization
Mass Migration
Rise of Social Media
Escalating Social Alienation, Depression, Anxiety
Climate Change
Rise of China
Longest Bull Market in History
Shitty music
Degeneracy
Decline of the West
Neither problem exists if there's only one political party
Not following you
Mass shootings
The fall of Hong Kong
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