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"Traditional institutions, like home ownership, marriage, and religion, are fading in their appeal." I think you might be reversing cause and effect. Millennia
by bwestergard 4y ago
"Traditional institutions, like home ownership, marriage, and religion, are fading in their appeal."
I think you might be reversing cause and effect. Millennials are less wealthy, and thus less able to purchase homes, get married. Traditional religious affiliation is declining, but it's debatable to what degree religious impulses have declined and to what degree they have simply found new forms of expression (e.g. into astrology, QAnon-style "theories", "General Artificial Intelligence", spiritualized ecology, etc.)
"People change jobs more frequently now than in the past, and consequently they tend to move around more often."
This is a false statement. The decline of residential mobility and its impact on labor market dynamism is a hot topic in U.S. economics research today.
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/04/541675186/fewer-americans-are-moving-to-pursue-better-jobs-across-the-nation https://www.npr.org/2017/08/04/541675186/fewer-americans-are...
https://workofthefuture.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020-Research-Brief-Autor.pdf https://workofthefuture.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2...
- randomdata 4y ago> e.g. into astrology, QAnon-style "theories", "General Artificial Intelligence", spiritualized ecology, etc. Most of all: College. Not only does it share a lot of the practical value that the church historically provided (community, fellowship, teaching), but notably it carries a similar fear-based belief system whereby there is a lot of social pressure to attend and it is accepted that if you don't attend you will face the scorn of the economic deity; the modern day version of "you will go to hell". The specific "higher power" may have changed with time, but the human behaviour certainly hasn't.