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More than half of millennials are >=37 years old now...hell, the oldest are in their mid forties now
I wonder how many of us have settled for being content with watching the world burn.
From my own experience, it's mostly just the ones without kids that don't give a shit and have gone apathetic.
That's a fair point of view. From some meagre research that's about 33% of millenials and GenZ's.
Another fair point IMO, settling for something is not the same as being apathetic. It's more a question about finding the best way of coping with an unacceptable situation.
I'll be 36 this year and I still live like I did when I was a student. I'm too worried about getting used to nice things and have been for the past 20 years that I simply just don't spend money on anything other than food and bills and people around me tell me I should spoil myself more and go on more vacations and blah blah blah and I just want to scream at them xD
My life goal is to stay out of debt. You don't stay out of debt if you constantly fly around the world and buy expensive shit you don't need and replace your phone every three years or whatever I see some people do.
The good thing about my lifestyle is that when the next economic crisis hits, I am used to live like a rat so I don't have to dial back too much compared to some people who treat their bankaccount like a Yolo slot machine.
I sure do miss rotisserie chicken, though. That's one luxury I sadly got used to but whatever. Not the hardest thing to give up tbh and once in awhile you do get lucky that they are on sale to a reasonable price.
Chicken thighs or quarters are good for moist, flavorful chicken
Source: fellow rat
Oh for real. We sometimes buy a very cheap and shitty red wine and soak chicken thighs in it and cook them with spices and veggies. Also chopping up cauliflower and fry it with garlic and pepper and using the red wine sauce from the chicken to pour over it before serving. Fucking magic. It's almost enough to make you forget that you're a rat.
Every three years? Lol.
Yes. I have known a few people who made a bit of fun of me for having kept the same phone for seven years and told me that they had had three or four phones within that time span and that I was silly for keeping the same phone for so long. What about the newest updates and cameras and gadgets or whatever they call it? Why would I put up with outdated tech? The phone I have right now is from 22 and it still works fine. I hope it will last me until 2032, longer if possible.
No, I get it. My phones should last at least five years and some of them even have longer uses after being my primary phones. For example, I still plan to use my Redmi Note 4 Pro (mido) as a Kodi entertainment center with postmarketOS, even after six years of heavy daily usage. Every time I buy a phone I try to make sure it's officially supported by Lineage OS, but people in general just want the new thing. Honestly, the mobile phone industry doesn't even change that fast anymore. A 3-yo phone is basically as good as the new shiny thing.
As it always has been.
And many of the "smart" ones still think economic market models are more accurate than reality.