Young adults set an earlier bedtime as they navigate economic fatigue, wellness trends, and a loneliness epidemic
Young adults set an earlier bedtime as they navigate economic fatigue, wellness trends, and a loneliness epidemic
Amidst high inflation and socioeconomic turmoil, Americans just want to sleep.
"Economic fatigue" nice newspeak for being piss-poor as a consequence of legislative failure to curtail wage theft over the past few decades.
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.
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 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?
People who lose all interest in doing anything and can't stand being conscious any longer than absolutely neccessary
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....
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.
I fall asleep because I'm approaching 40 and basically dead. I'm looking at a THREE FUCKING HUNDRED dollar pillow so my arm doesn't hurt while I sleep.....
I don't think they are missing very much. Staying out late to "party" has always been overrated. It made a little more sense as a form of entertainment decades ago. These days you can be entertained in a variety of ways. As for social mixing, playing sports, table top games with friends, or volunteering are much more fulfilling activities than late night clubbing. Ryan George has a funny video about how awful nightclubs are.
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
Loneliness epidemic aka. they don't conform to the previous social norms.
I try be in bed by 1:30am so I can wake up just before my first meeting at 10
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.
Welcome to adulthood whippersnappers!
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