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It always seemed odd to me that non-millennials would look at millennials buying less and assume strange preferences rather than empty pockets.
by tvanantwerp 8y ago
It always seemed odd to me that non-millennials would look at millennials buying less and assume strange preferences rather than empty pockets.
- michaelt 8y agoI suspect when you're a journalist it's easy to take a biased sample and getting an unrepresentative result because of it. I can ask my buddies who don't have cars why they don't have cars, and none of them will say it's empty pockets. Because my car-less buddies are a biased sample, software developer cyclists in central London.
- Loughla 8y agoYou nailed it. NPR did a story about the class division among journalists this year, or late last year. Folks from lower-socioeconomic classes have a more difficult time getting into journalism, because of the low-wage barrier early in their careers. So we have a class of journalists from upper-middle to upper classes. They select their experiences and their 'circles' as the experiences, and here we are. I have no data, but I'm 100% certain that if you interview individuals with enough wealth/education/privilege to be in the same social circles as the major journalists for major organizations, your experiences aren't the standard US citizen experiences.