Young adults set an earlier bedtime as they navigate economic fatigue, wellness trends, and a loneliness epidemic
https://fortune.com/2024/02/08/young-adults-set-an-earlier-bedtime-as-they-navigate-economic-fatigue-wellness-trends-and-a-loneliness-epidemic/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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"Economic fatigue" nice newspeak for being piss-poor as a consequence of legislative failure to curtail wage theft over the past few decades.
Or legislative success in suppressing organized labor.
Union busting Biden. Fucking shame!
OMG. Can we stop circle jerking about something that didn't happen? I'm just gonna paste my last comment about this because I don't have the energy..
The fucking goddamn ghouls in the Senate think people get sick ONCE a year? Or are they too fucking greedy and think "my stocks might lose value if those companies have to pay workers when they're not working! Unacceptable!!"
I have a pretty poor view of our fellow citizens, but to be "represented" by that kind of disgusting human? It's laughable to consider them representing anything but wealth...
Why would they curtail it when the voters show their support for it every two years without fail?
Hey I don't support it! I just voted for Democrats to prevent Trump doing fascist things like genocide. I've been laying on that pressure to push them further left by posting online, or something. If they don't listen, I'll primary them out... unless of course they know better than us and tweak the primaries a little.
I mean yeah I'll keep voting for the same people, but they should know I'm very upset.
I don't like that that feels so relatable.
Although I also say loudly and to anyone who will listen in real life that I wish to chop the heads off of billionaires and burn all of their headquarters to the ground. Hopefully, they resonate with that and we can get this ball rolling.
If I fall asleep earlier, I can skip both dinner and feeling sad.
Big dinner and big therapy hate this simple trick
The bread and circuses are getting worse, and more expensive.
I love how I’ve been seeing more and more of these articles, and in ways they seem accusatory of GenZ/Millenials for not consuming.
I’d like to believe that just as much of folks not going out is them realizing from the pandemic that they don’t need to do it to be happy, as it is that they don’t have the money to go out. Just don’t do it. Have a close group of friends you enjoy. Don’t shell out money to poison your mind/body. There can be an upside to this.
The 80s and 90s made me believe that a bar was where you met friends, and frequent attendance was important. But when I actually worked at a bar, holy shit. The regulars were sad drunks.
I love bars, and they are often a place I go to meet friends. But I probably drove there so I can't exactly get drunk. Besides, who can afford those bar tabs on the regular. I'm going to be nursing those drinks for a while.
But I'm also finding a resistance to friends going to visit each other. You don't have to spend money to see people, but it seems like even the effort to see people isn't happening.
That’s a good point. I have found that post-pandemic people seem to also be a lot more accustomed to canceling last minute. I almost have more success having semi-large work gatherings than small friend ones.
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you do form a connection with someone who does wanna check in.
I'm old and my friends live all over the country. I send them 2-3 messages a year. Good friends imo.
I think cultural norms try to frame friendship as this magical connection. But really it's a super nice person you met one time and now send Christmas cards and say hi to.
I go to bed early because I'm tired ALL the time
What are they to do?
Shrinking discretionary budget, more and more responsibilities at work (multiple roles condensed into one), and a looming sense you are easily replaceable with layoffs and AI tools.
On the other, if you are taught your only worth is your job, there is no point in exploring outside of that, and spending your energy on things that won't make you a good worker.
Can’t even binge watch things with streaming services constantly jacking up their prices.
Yarr
When you're asleep there's no lonely times.
BRINGO
Unless you dream about being lonely. 💀
Those darn kids, going to bed early, and not partying!
Are Millennials killing off the Evening Entertainment Industry???
(Paywall, can't read – but) I spend over 8 hours per day working before I have time for cooking, shopping, cleaning etc. It's around 9pm when my life begins. Who has time to sleep early?
Some say it's a matter of attitude, of seeing all of your day aa YOUR life.
Would love to know how to have that attitude....
People who lose all interest in doing anything and can't stand being conscious any longer than absolutely neccessary
I’m in bed early, up early, and I don’t go out. That’s been my MO for years now. I like it that way and don’t intend to change it. There’s not much that interests me anymore anyway.
Pull the trigger on that pillow I promise you won't regret it.
BigPillow corp is that you?
Haha no just want to share the love. I am super cheap and I splurged on getting a top quality pillow a few years back and it was so worth it. I really wish I'd done it sooner.
:D yeah just making a joke. I am currently trying to convince my wife that we should get expensive feather down pillows. A hotel we stayed in had them and the comfort was amazing!
Curious to know the brand, if you wouldn't mind sharing. I lift weights five days a week and would definitely benefit from pillows that help with muscle pain.
I got the expensive feather down pillows that Bed Bath and Beyond used to sell as their house brand.
Is it the medcline pillow? Because if it is, get it, it's magical.
My wife uses one and it has helped her sleep better immensely. Anecdotal, but probably worth a shot.
I had something like that when I was pregnant and it truly was magical.
We bought my husband his own after he kept stealing mine.
I have a library a few blocks from my building and my bed is comfy and well-suited to reading.
That's my excuse.
When I was their age we partied all night long and making capitalism successful!
Shows me a paywall
Archived link
https://archive.md/yV5f5
I try be in bed by 1:30am so I can wake up just before my first meeting at 10
Loneliness epidemic aka. they don't conform to the previous social norms.
9pm is what I am for.
Fuck no I'm not, I'll probably get to sleep at like 8am for a few hours. Embrace chaos and disorder.
For me, I don't really even have my nights anymore because of where I work. I only get to see them 2 nights a week. Every week I don't even see mornings much and I only have a sliver of choice to make and that's dependant on if anything is even happening during the daytime that'd require me to have to put off sleep. At most, I only ever gain like 3 - 5 hours of actual free time.
“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.BURN THE TREES! I suffered so everyone else should forever!"