https://fortune.com/2023/06/14/gen-z-millennials-treat-culture-coping-mechanism-rough-economy/
"Millennials will never be wealthy so they are buying treats"
Every 6 months or so 🔄
"Millennials are buying treats so they will never be wealthy":kelly: News cycle
Every two weeks:
This millennial never bought treats and amassed an enviable portfolio of real estate by running a blog about sidewalk gum and an associated Etsy shop**And a small $250,000 loan from her trust fund and her real estate connections from her parents to buy distressed homes at auction.
Big Line Goes Up
- Millennials are buying too many treats. They'll never be as successful as their elders if they don't learn to save up and invest in institutions of long term capital
Big Line Goes Down
- Millennials are destroying the Treats Market! How a decline in the sale of Treats has decimated markets of Small Treat-Business Owners
This is literally the only thing capitalism offers people nowadays.
My parents in their 30's: Let's buy a house.
Me in my 30's: Let me buy a pizza slice.
[bourgeois finance magazines]: :wojak-nooo: how can millennials be so entitled to treats?!
oh please, boomers and xers are way more treat obsessed. they're the ones that made sure every prepared food item is supersaturated with salt and sugar. they turned the entire landscape into treatos and yumyums. boomers just get to have a house and a retirement too, so they can talk about things like "i had hip replacement surgery, so my doctor put me on blood thinners" or "the third contractor quoted me a number even higher than the first two for putting in a deck" with each other.
when all you can afford is little things, that's what you're going to have in common to share with each other.
Am I remembering correctly, did Felix originate the "treat" discourse in an ep a few years ago complaining about some infantilizing ad in the subway?
Listen, nerds. Make your own treats: beer, bbq, ice cream, weird coffee drinks, all of it. It'll piss everyone off even more. And you'll save a buck or two.
While I agree I'm also a hypocrite. My 8-5 drains me so much I don't have the energy to do those things. I used to make my own bread on weekends and esoteric drinks but I don't have any motivation when I'm home anymore and it suuuuucks
I was just reflecting last night on the fact that my 8-5 (or 6…) work leaves me so fried at the end of the day that I never cook or engage with my hobbies any more. I usually just microwave a meal and engage in some kind of media escapism.
I recently got a deal on a food dehydrator and have been making various types of fruit leathers and am starting to experiment with vegan jerkies. It's going pretty okay!
How dare you not participate in the market. This is how the terrorists win.
No idea what beyond or impossible stuff is made of, but if you add the spices and stuff it comes out pretty good. Textured protein makes really yummy vegan jerky curls though!
Lately I've been making cold brew at home instead of getting starbucks and it's been chill :cool-bean:
Best part about cold brewing is that you can choose cheaper coffee without impacting the taste too much. I stopped drinking cold brew when I realized it was giving me an irregular heartbeat
Best part about cold brewing is that you can choose cheaper coffee without impacting the taste too much. I stopped drinking cold brew when I realized it was giving me an irregular heartbeat
reading the second sentence after the first :scared:
I've learned that I need to be careful with cold brew too, because when it compounds with my adhd meds I can get pretty anxious and feel a wicked tension in my chest... I'm sure you know, oof. Though I'm curious to try it with cheaper coffee to see if I notice a difference in taste
I’m no connoisseur and I’m sure bad coffee is bad coffee but cold brewing reduces the actual or perceived acidity in the flavor.
The long brewing time means the water soluble caffeine has a more complete extraction. I have a bit of an extra caffeine sensitivity though.
First they stole our housing, then they stole our words.
This is unforgivable, ya boy's going to invent Stalinism 2.
Luv 2 see mainstream outlets like Fortune casually use "empire" to describe the U.S., only to have neoliberal dweebs go all debatelord over any mention of the term
