Can’t speak for them Zoomers in the US, but my guess would be that Corona is responsible for the sharp decline. Most of GenZ reached drinking age around that time and boozing alone is by far not as fun as in a group.
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.
I suspect it has to do with what their primary activities are. Perhaps they’re spending less time in groups and more time isolated, communicating digitally.
Weed is clearly superior (at lest for me)
Vaping is massive with them too.
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…
What about the youngest? I never know where cut off is.
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 !
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
I’m wondering how this is calculated? Is the data tracked by IDs scanned and birthdays entered at registers?
Poor.
The point of alcohol is to not remember your poverty 🙃
To hell with poverty… let’s get drunk on cheap wine…
Because alcohol is bad for you?
Our parents were still told that a glass of wine a day was healthy.
tiktok and youtube thats why. that pretty much is the new alcohol. Also things GLP-1, omezpic, and WEGOVY also is a threat to alcohol industry.
GLP-1, omezpic, and WEGOVY also is a threat to alcohol industry.
Why? Do thin people not drink?
Ozempic and the like also affect impulse control (and a whole lot of other stuff, the health effect research is technically ongoing).
So if you’re on it you don’t feel the desire to snack, it helps you moderate yourself, and I guess it stands to reason it would lower the impulse to drink too.
Though I’m just guessing here, take this with a grain of salt.
Because people don’t have unlimited money, I guess.
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
Why spend on alcohol when I can buy more books, games, travel the world or join a sports club instead of damaging my own body and end up paying more with hospital bills later in life?
Bevlcause half of Gen Z is under 21 and the rest is broke?
Gen Z here. Tastes like shit
I actually rather like the taste. Although it’s certainly an acquired taste. Like salminak
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.tastes more like hand sanitizer, but I like the taste of hand sanitizer so I’ll drink it, but it’s also too expensive
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.
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
what about chocolate, and smiling more. Have you tried those?
smh
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.
That would be a reason for more alcohol
Elder millennial here.
…that just about sums it up. Well done.
Many Gen Z are under 21
Gen Z refers to the demographic cohort born roughly between 1997 and 2012. So ages 13 to 28. Seven years of data is a fine enough sample set.
This is total expenditure though
