WSJ Comment Section is Hilarious
I generally I identify as more conservative leaning, but damn, I look at the WSJ comment section sometimes and it is wild to see how grumpy and out of touch the older generations are. I don’t think I have ever read an article with a positive comment section- everyone is so negative lmao. It’s all the same rhetoric too - “kids these days”, “what happened to our country”, “back in my day”, blah blah blah. It’s entertaining, but also pretty disheartening to be completely honest. And to think that these are the people running and controlling most of the wealth in the United States loool. Boomers gonna boom
Much older than my title - but reading WSJ comments is basically my favorite relaxation hobby. Sometimes they can really twist themselves in a knot (anti-Government but then hate Medicare Advantage). Many of them are literally 80-90 years old if you google them.
One of my favorite games to play after reading an article is to guess, before I open the comments, how the old people are going to turn the discussion political OR what they are going to be upset about.
It’s pretty easy to guess on the heavily politicized pieces which usually result in vehement anti-Kamala comments and talking about how the WSJ is turning into CNN. But it’s really fun on random stuff about social issues, sports, cultural trends, or miscellaneous news - that’s when you see people take things way too literally and complain about how an article was a total “waste of time” or about how kids these days are snowflakes and don’t know how to work hard. It’s a literal boomer meme reading through most of the time.
Probably the most toxic comment section I saw recently was on an article about birth rates declining and how people in Korea were more interested in having dogs. I honestly think the writers at WSJ sometimes just try to troll their user base because god damn that really set some people off. Totally baited them lmao. Go look it up if you haven’t, it was hilarious.
studying towards IB/banking/finance and eventually working in that space often may lead to a bitter/cynical attitude towards life. It's the way things in some corporate jobs are. From the start, you work with people much older than you, and especially finance skews older than other industries. it takes years to learn how complex deals are executed and it's very useful to have that experience. The young-ish industries often don't pay that much or are also hard to enter.
industries were attitudes are very different:
travel
hospitality
innovation
venture capital
PE deals in some industries
music
entertainment
some startups (but not all of them)
(and more I can't think of)
At the end of the day, we spend way too much time working and forget to live our life.
FT comments section clears
No question. Typically very insightful & occasionally quite funny
FT comment section stinks in comparison. It's a bunch of elite liberal metropolitan champagne socialist remoaners. Would rather talk to a dumb boomer 100 times out of a 100 vs any of them.
On non political articles they give good insight though
This. Only good for those who personally identify with and use the label "upper class".
I genuinely have no problem with the WSJ comment section, and find it much less insufferable and far more balanced that the NYT.
There was an article a few weeks ago on gen alpha slang (pretty much a tik tok brainrot glossary). It basically talked about how kids are using “Ohio” as an insult, which is dumb asf, but holy shit I read the comments on that one and lost it. The old people from Ohio viewed it as a personal attack on their beloved state lmao
Its truly pathetic when older people, myself included now, get up in arms about not being considered 'cool' with kids. Things like ok boomer a few years ago or stuff like this.
One of the main benefits that comes with age is not giving a shit about what other people think of you, ESPECIALLY the younguns. In fact those cultural frictionpoints are actually enjoyable and something to be proud of. I cannot fathom being 30, 40, or 50+ and still chasing clout by doing Tik Tok trends in the hopes of getting invited to a party that doesnt want anything to do with you
Oh man. This post is gold to me.
Trolling on Reddit has become boring. It’s so easy to trigger people, there’s no fun in it. Plus, I also get insta banned these days by those mods who get high on the little power they have.
And trolling here is also boring as well. I just have to sneakily diss trump or insinuate someone has a loser for a parent if they grew up poor, and I get the reaction I’m looking for.
But I never thought to looks at the WSJ comment section.
Good looking out!
You’re the exact person that I’d imagine spends their free time trolling on reddit
You are such a small man
Boomer comments are hilarious on the WSJ, love how they sign off with their name too hahaha
have a buddy who used to kill time at work reading comments on Fox News and CNN website to get some really crazy takes
Wait until you get a bit older and find out they’re right about a majority of things.
Honestly, they’re not conservative enough, which leads to ideologically incoherent positions, like raging about the size of the federal government in the abstract but never wanting to actually cut anything specifically. Even if it’s something like the Department of Education, which didn’t even exist until the Carter Administration, has been a massive net negative for the country, and should be completely eliminated at the federal level immediately.
Realistically, we could—and should—do away with 90% of the federal government and leave stuff to the states like the Founding Fathers intended. But that won’t ever happen voluntarily. Things will continue to get weirder until the USD get devalued dramatically and then spending will have to be cut, if not nominally then in terms of real value.
The older I get, the more I think the Founding Fathers were right about basically everything except slavery, and I’m in awe of how wise those men were given how young many of them were at the time.
what
Translation: The Department of Education is a Post-MBA associate with zero skills, work ethic, character, etc. who got the job based on nepotism and/or diversity. They stand between the highly productive analyst and the VP barfing incoherent review comments onto the analyst’s work product, taking unearned credit when things go right, and casting aspersions when things go wrong. They push good analysts out of the bank/industry and make everything worse while soaking up massive paychecks. They are extremely value destructive. Yet instead of being fired in six months because the investment bank realizes it made a huge mistake, they are never fired—in fact, they get budget increases each year—because the “investment bank” is this case is the federal government, with zero competition and the power to tax and spend.
P.S.—this horrible associate (DoE) is also trying to convince the impressionable broccoli-haired intern that he’s transgendered and should castrate himself, and the poor analyst wants to blow the whistle to the MD but can’t because his career is on the line.
Nice cope
What cope? I didn’t try and fail to get a job at The DoE only to turn around and diss it. That’d be cope. If you’re going to reflexively deploy a short, cynical reply to try to seem edgy and cool since you don’t know what else to do, then at least call me “cringe” like a properly spoken Zoomer Chad. I still know slang, I’ve dated younger chicks lately—which may be “cringe,” but isn’t “cope.” Get it together.
You can say that the Department of Education has been a “net negative”, but really, why would the government throw away one of their most effective and direct social engineering tools?
It’s never going to happen.
"Boomers gonna boom."
Yeah, one thing young people are known for is....*checks notes*...not complaining...
With you on this one. In the UK, the Telegraph comments just compared, 'Denazification' to a similar need for, 'Deblairification' (Dig at Tony Blair)...
I was literally having that exact same thought last night reading the WSJ. Most predictable comment section ever
Comments are super funny on WSJ’s LinkedIn posts, too. Usual commenter’s headline: “Retired”.
Honestly, if I was a retired boomer with plenty of money and nothing to lose, I’d probably be wildly unhinged online too
Just scrolled down to WSJ comments the other day for the first time on this article:
https://www.wsj.com/economy/how-immigration-remade-the-u-s-labor-force-…
... lmfao.
Makes you realize even people with wealth in this country, and read WSJ, have no fucking clue what they're talking about.
What were some bad takes ? Of the last 5-10 comments some were complaining about the rapid changes in some cities, lack of assimilation, some research hinging on studies done in years past where the quantum and mix of illegals was substantially different, and others saying survey data should be taken with a grain of salt because illegals are less responsive.
I read it the first day it came out when the shitposts from 80 year olds were at the top of the comments. When you look now, obviously the first 5-10 comments that are the most liked are gonna be decent takes. Scroll down a page lol
This is on point. Sometimes I don't even read the article, I just scroll down to the comments for a laugh.
You think that's bad? Try the Yahoo Finance section.
Disappointed we didn't get some screenshots of hilarious comments on here.
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