Half of gen Z can’t legally drink and 75% of them are broke?
They wouldn’t be broke if they weren’t such lazy moochers and worked real jobs!
/s just in case
Yeah but how was the data collected? At bars and pubs? The cost of alcohol has always been pricey but its been very expensive for gen z. We had pre-drinks before going out and then didnt spend much at the pub coz we were already on a few things. Im in my 30s now and i still do predrinks before going somewhere or i just dont drink coz im not paying $20 for a shot of gin with some tonic water
Nobody has healthcare, housing is unaffordable, we pay for everything with our tax dollars but all the profits go to corrupt pedofiles, Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison are turning the country into a mass surveillance prison for us to live in, there’s no laws for the rich, the earth is dying because the pedofile class doesn’t give a fuck about anything except doing as much evil as possible, there’s a genocide going on and 95% of American politicians are giving away unlimited amounts of our tax dollars to fund it and for the genocidal country to have universal healthcare and free college and a $400 monthly payment per child, the same politicians want to make it illegal to talk about or boycott Israel for their crimes, Trump has the nuclear codes, a secret police force is disappearing people and shooting people who are exercising their first amendment rights women’s rights are being stripped away and a lot of the boys and men are cheering……I could go on and on but the reason is there’s nothing to celebrate
In Germany, we have the word “schönsaufen”, which means something along the line of “drinking until something or someone ugly looks pretty” and I think that’s beautiful.
Elder millennial here.
…that just about sums it up. Well done.
what about chocolate, and smiling more. Have you tried those?
smh
That would be a reason for more alcohol
Most Gen Z-ers can’t legally buy alcohol yet.
And illegal consumption doesn’t make it into the statistic.I hate to break it to you but the oldest of gen z start turning 30 next year…
Isn’t the legal drinking age in the US 35 or something like that?
57 actually. That’s why the numbers are so high for boomers and Gen x, we have to get them to buy the booze for us.
Cries in 39 year old Millennial
Oh that’s my favourite spot in the stall! Thank you, friend!
They have to buy the booze cuz you’re even poorer than them
That’s cause I spend all my money on avocado toast.
Worth it though !
What about the youngest? I never know where cut off is.
I thought the cutoff was 2010, but apparently it’s 2012, so the youngest are 14. Each generation spans about 15 years.
Bingo. Yet another example of an age effect being attributed to a generational difference. I’m so tired of these horoscope-like characterizations of people
Bevlcause half of Gen Z is under 21 and the rest is broke?
Gen Z here. Tastes like shit
Drinking is so ingrained in human culture that people often get into it because of social pressure.
That’s why it’s given special treatment in comparison with drugs like weed, even though it’s more dangerous.I actually rather like the taste. Although it’s certainly an acquired taste. Like salminak
Likely you haven’t had anything that doesn’t taste like shit.
I had, until I tasted alcohol. You’d think something that ruins lives would at last had a taste that justified it.
There’s this neat life hack where you drink enough and forget all about the taste - and most of the previous night, to boot!
I don’t actually drink though, tastes like shit.
tastes more like hand sanitizer, but I like the taste of hand sanitizer so I’ll drink it, but it’s also too expensive
Poor.
The point of alcohol is to not remember your poverty 🙃
To hell with poverty… let’s get drunk on cheap wine…
Yes but liver disease is expensive.
Legitimately I think it’s because Gen Z and below are horribly anxious and not very social. We really fucked these kids’ confidence over at every opportunity and now we’re wondering why they’re not going out to parties and stuff and why they’re not really dating.
Because we’re broke
Weed is clearly superior (at lest for me)
Vaping is massive with them too.
Considering half of Gen Z isn’t even legal drinking age yet, this isn’t too surprising.
Plus with declining birthrates in developed countries there are probably fewer overall Gen Z people than older cohorts. So even if they drank at the same rate you could still expect the absolute amount of alcohol consumption to be lower.
By that logic it should be around 10B by now
People in their 20s tend to buy well drinks and cheap beer unless they’re independently wealthy. Older people tend to have more expensive, or at least more specific, preferences.
Raw spending doesn’t mean much in isolation.
No because the half that currently can’t drink might drink twice as much
Also, THC drinks are all over the US now and very popular. Most of my (young millennial) friends there barely drink alcohol and have swapped them with gummies and seltzers.
Wow, I don’t spend nearly this amount on alcohol
It was never the avacodo toast preventing millenials from buying a house. It was the $34 Billion they each spent every year on booze.
If only they knew how to budget.
Those are rookie numbers. Gotta push em up
Don’t worry, I’m bringing the average back up again.
“Fading”, more like jumped off a cliff.
There is no safe amount of alcohol to drink.
Everyone is broke.
They watched their parents make asses of themselves while drunk, and today everyone has a video camera in their hand.
I think this sums it up
Marijuana legalization has to be a big part of it
The mileage you can get out of $20 of weed is substantially more than $20 of wine, even with taxes and price inflation
You can get 2 bottles each of which can be about 4 servings over 3 days per bottle.
I’m surprised millennials didn’t kick that habit. But it was bound to happen. Alcohol doesn’t taste like something good at all.
