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Oh, it's the daily "Why won't millenials engage in the usual consumerist patternsß Don't they know they are ruining the economy?"-headline. I feel sorry for the
by cyborgx7 10y ago
Oh, it's the daily "Why won't millenials engage in the usual consumerist patternsß Don't they know they are ruining the economy?"-headline. I feel sorry for the article writers that get burdened with this stuff.
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- ng-user 10y agoNo kidding, millenials vs. the world is how I feel growing up this day and age.
- pklausler 10y ago> this day in age. Sigh. At least you didn't write "for all intensive purposes".
- antisthenes 10y agoBut he could probably care less.
- ng-user 10y agoHaha my apologies, I knew it felt wrong.
- ihuman 10y agoNot really. The headline is clickbaity, but then the author goes against the headline in the third paragraph But this story reflects two universal truths about culture. First, many cultural changes for which Millennials are initially blamed really reflect broader trends affecting even the oldest consumers. Second, many cultural changes are really reversions to old norms.
- alex- 10y agoI agree the author made it very clear that this was not a millennial behaviour alone >The big story here is not that young people are uniquely turning away from groceries. Rather, the story is a structural shift toward eating out at restaurants >So what seems to be a strictly Millennial trend is in fact part of a much broader cultural shift.
- bmj 10y agoExcept the article goes on to say that people are spending more money at bars and restaurants than at grocery stores. There is no indication that millennials are spending less money on food overall (in fact, wouldn't eating out every day mean they are spending more money than would buying groceries?).
- oh_sigh 10y agoIs eating solely take out and at restaurants more consumerist or less consumerist than shopping at grocery stores?