I’m ~40. My gen probably drinks way more than the current 20yos, and we drunk even more when we were their age. I guess the “onlinefication of everything” has to do with it, they basically don’t leave home.
As a bartender who’s been doing it for a good while. The younger gen doesn’t drink as much but the folk around my age & older are keeping my job very secure.
Weed’s legal in more places and it doesn’t give you as bad a hangover.
I can only comment for my age group. Obviously they don’t drink like they’re 20 anymore, but there’s still a lot drunk. I’ve no clue with the young uns
Yes, at least here in Germany alcohol consumption is down. And that’s not just subjective, but also reflected in statistics. The decline is especially prominent in beer consumption.
I think one major factor is that in the past drinking beer for lunch or dinner was significantly more common and socially acceptable.
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Same. There is no safe level of alcohol so I avoid it like its the poison it is.
Probably a lot of reasons. Part of it with the ‘mental health crisis’ being treated with medication so people dont self medicate as much with alcohol
Anecdotally the don’t drink and drive campaigns were quite successfull amongst my peers. That results in a lot of social situations where there’s less alcohol consumed.
Yes, at least I think it’s the csae in the UK. It’s one of the many reasons why the pub industry is declining. Apparently the Gen Z demographic don’t drink anywhere near as much as the older generations did, and are a lot more health conscious.
If you’ve got the money for booze, you have access to the information age. All it takes is three working brain cells to look up the effects of alcohol.
In the past, when we were kids, it was possible to put off going to the library to look up something like the health effects of alcohol for your entire shortened life. Now, that library is in your pocket. People were mocked and ridiculed as nerds back in the day. Now, the tables are turned entirely. If you’re too stupid to look up whatever thing, you will get the same level of ostracization and ridicule that was once limited to the rare person motivated to try and do casual research. People always push away the unfamiliar. The line in the sand changes. That kind of behavior also costs everyone a fortune in the ameliorated medical expenses, so accessibility is curbed through cost.
Plus in the western world, banks have been allowed to plunder the cost of living until we are totally non competitive with most of Asia. The cost of living is the real reason “”“nobody wants to work”“” and businesses turn to exploitation and theft of ownership. Those that used to drink and barely get by are now homeless, while the middle lives paycheck to paycheck, and the rest only have inherited wealth, which has no meritocratic filter and leads to rot and irrelevance. That last one is the real root of all of our cultural problems. Eliminate inheritance of anything more than funding an upper middle class life, for life, and all the problems go away with time. No loop holes, no medieval dynastic nonsense; intelligence and business acumen is not hereditary.
