• @Cosmonauticus
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    Genz can’t afford a car. Even used cars cost too damn much

        • @Buddahriffic
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          Though I admit, part of the reason I don’t buy diamonds is specifically to fuck the diamond industry. Because fuck those scammers.

        • eric
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          Maybe they’d have money for cars and homes and diamonds if it weren’t for all that damn avocado toast!

          • @humorlessrepost
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            1110 months ago

            Yeah, but then the headlines would be blaming millennials for killing the avocado market.

          • @j4k3
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            810 months ago

            You must tip your microwave at home. Like the one at applebees, a microwave is a slave of the service industry that relies on panhandling your dinner table to survive.

        • @pyromaster55
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          710 months ago

          And eating at casual dining restaurants.

      • @Moneo
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        1010 months ago

        AFAIK similar articles (about driving less) were also penned about millennials and genxers.

    • @[email protected]
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      710 months ago

      That’s the real issue. It is 100% not that they’re more environmentally cautious. Between less 16 year olds having jobs and cars and gas and insurance being so much more, less can afford a car. E bikes probably even have more to do with it than environmentalism does.

      • @grue
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        310 months ago

        The Internet replacing the need to go places (e.g. chatting on social media vs. hanging out in a dead mall) probably helped too.

        • HobbitFoot
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          210 months ago

          You also have ride hail services that weren’t available a generation ago. You can get places in a car without owning a car.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          True enough. Cruisin, video gaming on split screen, and malls got replaced by social media and online gaming with voicechat.