The Cheapest Generation: Why Aren’t Millennials Buying Cars or Houses?
What if Millennials’ aversion to car-buying isn’t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits? It’s a question that applies not only to cars, but to several other traditional categories of big spending—most notably, housing. And its answer has large implications for the future shape of the economy—and for the speed of recovery.
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It’s safe to say that a decent number of Tumblr users are a part of the Millennial generation. So, tell us: Do you own a car or house? If not, why?
(via moneyisnotimportant)
Maybe because we realized the American Dream is whack as fuck and we don’t want it.
“voluntarily downwardly-mobile children of wealthy parents” if they ^^^ are the ones whose blogs/instagrams about...
Is it me and the biases I’ve developed by being SURROUNDED BY THEM AT ALL TIMES AT WORK, or do the kids in the picture...
Reblogging for commentary.
This commentary knows what it’s talking about.
After living without it so long I don’t even have any desire for it. My mom and stepdad have this huge house, two huge...