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
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
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
Bevlcause half of Gen Z is under 21 and the rest is broke?
Because we’re broke
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.
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
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.
It’s because they can barely pay rent.
Yeah, poor people are notoriously sober
My alcohol consumption has dropped directly because of this. I use to get a six pack and a bottle of wine and go out a few times a month and now I literally can’t afford any of it.
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.
On July 1, 2024, the census estimates of the number of each generation of drinking age, if I’m reading this Excel spreadsheet correctly:
Gen Z (born between 1997 and 2012, but as of 2024 the only legal drinking age was those born between 1997 and 2003): 31.3 million
Millennial (born between 1981 and 1996): 74.1 million
Gen X (born between 1965 and 1980): 65.6 million
Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964): 66.9 million
So assuming that 20-somethings have less money to spend on expensive alcohol, and recognizing that Gen Z has less than half the drinking age population as the other generations, it’s not surprising for that generation to spend less on alcohol, even if their habits weren’t different than the older generations.
Now, their habits actually are different, so that might stretch things further. But a better way to present the data would be adjusted per capita. And maybe looking at historical data about when prior generations were the same age.
the theory that distinct generational behaviors can be bounded in ~15 year increments (which you display nicely above) has always seemed a bit off to me.
Excellent, I was thinking the same thing. If a graph shows that big a difference, it usually means that it is exploiting some not displayed variable to get the difference. Kids these days need to learn to spot such things.
@Mickey7 I’m biased because alcohol has cost me loved ones and 90% of my personal experiences under the influence ended badly. I also learned that Putin eliminated social reforms in Russia so that he could sell his vodka and increase control of the population. Organizers had worked hard for those reforms to curb death rates. “Consumption” is a cute way of saying death by alcohol. Big alcohol can fuck off and I hope they go bankrupt. The sooner the better.
Weed is clearly superior (at lest for me)
Vaping is massive with them too.
Other drugs are cheaper, and readily available.
https://northjerseyrecovery.com/why-gen-z-is-drinking-less-but-using-more-drugs/
Stimulants like Adderall and Xanax are often misused to cope with academic and social pressures.
I never knew benzodiazepines were stimulants.
They’re not? But they do help with the anxiety of academic and social pressures
It should say “Stimulants like adderal and depressents like Xanax are used to cope wiyh academic and social pressures”
Ah yes! The prostitutes, JFK and Stalin
Reminds me of the time I helped my uncle jack off a horse.
And often less harmfull than alcohol
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Sure a per capita (18+) comparison would be more useful than NET expenditure? It might be lower but there are too many possible variables that aren’t accounted for.
For example the graph below seems to indicate younger audiences drink dramatically less beer and wine than older generations, but dramatically more Hard Seltzers than Baby Boomers.
Why doesn’t this just have a combined category so we can figure out how many drink rather than what they drink
