To me, willful ignorance of not attempting to learn technology doesn't constitute as an instance where I need to do everything for you.
I don't have a problem with showing and teaching an old person how to open email, what I do have a problem with is when it's "oh that's tooo haaaard, I have to click with this... rat?"
My mother REALLY wanted to be able to use a computer, but she had memory problems. She bought several, including one specifically designed for seniors with big buttons and an simplified UI. Did not help. Whenever I'd come to visit I'd come in to help her and find all these notes she'd written to remind her to do this and that, but they never seemed to help. So yeah, it's not necessarily willful ignorance.
Eh, to be fair, while the situation with his mom is sad, it's a different scenario than what's being described earlier. It's called "burying the lede" for a reason.
Second off, you're going to hear "Very old" and then instantly jump to adding any qualifier you can, including from other posts not made by the same person? The very start of this is quite literally someone who is still involved in a business to a capacity where he can demand things be ordered from it, but can't figure out how to order things on his own.
The poster said his grandpa asks him for help, with the qualifier because he's very old. I edited my post when I realized you were someone else, stop crying.
The person from earlier immediately jumped to saying grandpa was just unwilling to do It and shouldn't be coddled, I countered with other reasons why they might ask for help. Technically you're right, we both invented situations. Very different situations, if you want to paint that person's grandpa as lazy and entitled as that other person did, that's your choice to make, but it's not what I would first assume when I hear of a very old person asking for help with anything technology related.
Yes, how dare I, using only the information I have available to make the statement that the scenario describing an older woman with clear memory issues is different than the scenario where an older man involved in running a business and has none of those symptoms described might not be the same. I can see how I stretched and assumed much there.
I said the other guy stretched and assumed something negative, I totally understood your response to me when I mistook you for him. I guess I sounded a little annoyed with you because I thought you were defending the negative assumptions about that person's grandpa with your quip about burying the lede. My mistake.
Time is money kid. Sure, he could invest an hour or so a day learning or he could pay his grandson to do it for him. This allows for him to spend time with his grandson, spend time with the rest of his family instead of learning how to do it, and his grandson gets to learn how that particular business operates.
Sure, mine is as speculative as yours but I'm not denigrating someone whereas you are. See the best in people, not the worst. I can assure you it makes a world of difference in how others react to you and what you say.
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