Comment on Gen Z is cooking more and shopping less as they struggle to achieve financial success

CyanFen@lemmy.one [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wouldn't get your hopes too high.

  In the wake of the 2008 crisis, many people stopped buying huge gas-guzzling automobiles and started buying smaller and more fuel efficient vehicles.

  Sure enough, as things recovered, people bounced right back to the SUVs.

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  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Small vehicles aren’t sold in the US anymore.

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    • Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just like small phones

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    • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Largely because there is such little demand for them relative to huge vehicles.

      How else will Bob and Beth show off how deeply serious they are as people without a massive truck and SUV that they actually use for their intended non-urban purpose maybe once a year?

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      • TransientPunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That simply isn’t true. We have laws in the US that dictate fuel economy relative to the size of the vehicle. Car manufacturers realized that they could make bigger vehicles rather than make them more fuel efficient. That’s the really reason our cars are so bloated

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  • franklin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fuck personal transport all my homies hate personal transport

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    • reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d love a personal teleporter though

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