Gen Z is choosing not to drive

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.world – 307 points –
Gen Z is choosing not to drive
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Genz can't afford a car. Even used cars cost too damn much

Same shit as when Millennials were killing home ownership.

And not buying diamonds.

Though I admit, part of the reason I don't buy diamonds is specifically to fuck the diamond industry. Because fuck those scammers.

Maybe they’d have money for cars and homes and diamonds if it weren’t for all that damn avocado toast!

Yeah, but then the headlines would be blaming millennials for killing the avocado market.

Is applebees dead yet or do we have to continue the war on "family restaurants"?

You must tip your microwave at home. Like the one at applebees, a microwave is a slave of the service industry that relies on panhandling your dinner table to survive.

AFAIK similar articles (about driving less) were also penned about millennials and genxers.

That's the real issue. It is 100% not that they're more environmentally cautious. Between less 16 year olds having jobs and cars and gas and insurance being so much more, less can afford a car. E bikes probably even have more to do with it than environmentalism does.

The Internet replacing the need to go places (e.g. chatting on social media vs. hanging out in a dead mall) probably helped too.

You also have ride hail services that weren't available a generation ago. You can get places in a car without owning a car.

True enough. Cruisin, video gaming on split screen, and malls got replaced by social media and online gaming with voicechat.

Lucky to get a hand-me-down as well.