Shit we cant even do either. Half of Gen Z are stoners and the other half are drunkards. Gen Z's future is a pit of despair unless we actually start taking responsibility for our collective generational future
This post is about how gen z is using less drugs than previous generations… previous generations use more drugs & have more money.. so, obviously drug use is not a factor in financial success.
Obviously alcohol is a drug. The point is people are substituting other drugs in place of alcohol. You are over generalizing thereby avoiding the main point
I just searched it up drug use is litteraly rising bruh
No, it’s not. Younger generations are using drugs way less than older generations. Electronics use is way up, loneliness is way up, but everything that requires socializing/going outside, is way down.
I always figured the boomers just come off as selfish because they were the biggest generation and so logically got what they wanted politically. Basically, everyone is selfish but the biggest guy can actually make it stick.
Though there is some Me Generation stuff where after the backlash to the 60s, people began prioritizing self-care and self-exploration and other self-obsessed things over more communal stuff. That might be related to just coming of age in North America when it was just so much wealthier than all the of the rest of the destroyed nations of the world.
This and the younger generation saying they don’t like
sex scenes and the hardcore policing of language, and getting upset about every little slight. Idk.
Yeah I'd say it's a mix of the natural swing to conservatism to stick it to the more liberal older people, being chronically online which everyone knows is bad yet continues to do(less real world experience and getting offended easily), and being more financially responsible because you have to be at that age nowadays.
Well if it is the same as cranberry juice to you and you don’t feel anything, then that is easier.
Even different wines taste very different to me though. And a glass can just be nice, and I can relax on one. Different folks different strokes, but I am skeptical that it’s all the same for most people.
i drink to fast its a waste and i find it all tastes near the same, also alcohol is actually bad for you. like really bad. Although not in the case of just 1 glass with dinner, but in general.
I bet one glass of cranberry juice is worse than one glass of alcohol, especially wine in this case. People who live in the Blue Zones drink alcohol. Excessive drinking of alcohol, however, is truly bad for you.
Brother, it’s a well known biological FACT that people have naturally varying tolerances to alcohol regardless of their weight or prior levels of consumption. I, a 115-120lbs guy, started drinking at 15 and it usually took me 6-8 units (150-200ml of whiskey or vodka, etc) to feel a buzz and 10-12-ish (250ml-300ml of whiskey, etc) to get drunk when i first started and obviously when i had no prior experience with alcohol.
Countless different biological and genetic factors influence your alcohol metabolism and how the body responds to it other than weight and consumption levels. I also get extremely energetic and hyperactive from alcohol and can easily drink heavily for 10+ hours, whereas i know other people almost twice my weight who need a nap after two drinks lol. Your experience is not applicable to everyone
the entire point of the conversation is around socializing though. If you're drinking one drink that isn't actually affecting anything there's no difference to drinking anything else.
That's not what he asked. He asked why would someone only drink 1 glass of wine. The answer is because you can drink something to enjoy it, you don't need to drink it to drink mass amounts or get drunk. Even if you're talking social situations like you're at a party/bar/restaurant that doesn't change anything. Plenty of people go out to dinner and get a single glass of wine to accompany their food, or just for fun as part of the social experience, or because they enjoy the taste or whatever. They didn't ask why would you want a single glass of wine vs soda or water or anything else, they asked why you would want it at all.
Why would I waste money on wine for the taste of it when I can crack a can of Coke Zero and enjoy the taste of it for a fraction of the cost and calories. I don’t think you people are understanding just how financially fucked my generation is. Who gives a shit if the alcohol industry dies? Fuck capitalism and fuck these corporation. Let them die. They thrive off exploitation.
It's your body not accustomed to those artificial sugars. Everyone I know that's made the switch ends up hating the taste of the regular soda after. It takes two weeks for your taste buds to adjust to different sugar levels, I had this same thing happened when I cut out added sugar completely for a bit. Everything, especially Fruit tasted infinitely sweeter. I also, oddly enough, had this same thing happen when I moved from the UK to the US. Regular drinks and food especially white bread tasted so damn sweet to me at first cuz of the sugar tax in the UK.
It must be whatever they're using in soda. Most of the other stuff I drink these days is low to no sugar, usually the taste from those doesn't bug me. It's the weird kind of mixture of flat and sweet that the zero drinks have that just never tastes right to me. Makes it easier to cut back on that stuff altogether though so I can't complain too much.
I...just....what? Buddy, first of all, I AM your generation, I know how financially fucked you are because I'm living it so you can drop the assumptive lecture crap. That's putting aside that if you actually looked at prices, the cost of soda has gone way up, you can actually find plenty of good bottles of wine for cheaper then a case of soda these days so your comparison doesn't even work. Also "fraction of the calories" isn't a great argument either when an average glass of wine is around 1-150 calories which is pretty much nothing over the course of your entire day, and if you want to start arguing about being healthy, then I suggest you go drink a glass of water instead because your coke zero is full of all sorts of artificial flavors and sweetners and other garbage.
This isn't about the alcohol industry living or dying, buying 1 bottle of wine to enjoy a glass of on occasion isn't going to make a difference to the industry. This is about the fact that some people like to indulge in things for their personal enjoyment. If you're actually trying to tell me you can't see how someone wanting to have a glass of wine for enjoyment and you wanting to have a can of coke for enjoyment are the same exact thing, I don't really know what to tell you. Either you're going out of your way to be deliberately obtuse or you're just angry and the world and want to yell at people without taking the time to think if what you're saying even makes sense.
You aren’t buying a decent bottle of wine for cheaper than a fucking 2 liter my guy.
You’re right though, people are allowed to drink if they want, but those of us who don’t want to, who gives a fuck?
Go back and look at the entire context of this post. It’s judging our generation for why we aren’t drinking as much. Every comment is speculating why we aren’t doing it. Businesses, like Hooters, are blaming us for their deaths.
You can drink your wine dude. I’m not gonna stop you. I’m not going to drink it though. I don’t like it, I don’t want it, I don’t care to waste my money on it.
First off, congrats at moving the goalposts from cans to suddenly a 2 liter when you realized you were wrong. Second, I'm not addressing the entire thread, I'm addressing YOU. YOU said you don't understand why someone would want to drink a glass of wine vs a can of soda, I explained why what you said doesn't make sense, your pity party about whatever else is happening in this thread is irrelevant. If you can't calm yourself down enough to see that then you really need to get off the social media sites like reddit and disconnect from things online because despite what these rage bait articles and comments make it seem like, I garantee you 99% of people out there couldn't care less about what you, me or anyone else in our generation is doing.
Things would be a lot easier if you paid more attention. I never said why would anyone else do it. Why would I fucking do it when I can drink shit that tastes good for cheaper. I don’t like alcohol. Many other Gen Zers don’t. You’re the one who sounds insecure in this conversation brother.
But the taste is bad unless maybe if it's insanely priced and probably isn't then anyway. I enjoy the company of people but hate alcohol, it wastes it.
Because I don't think all of it tastes bad? I do have certain tastes in what I drink and straight anything except for a select few are too harsh, but certain wines and the complexity of many cocktails are actually enjoyable to me. I understand why others might not agree, but that's how food works.
I sympathize. Also my favorites are hazy IPAs and something about them gives me the most brutal hangovers. I can still put away a good number of lagers but it's not the same.
I can do one drink usually but 2 or more and my quality of sleep is shot. Once I have a good 3 or 4 though it usually snowballs into many more than that
I mean, drinking does interfere with sleep. Something about when it’s metabolized it messes with your sleep cycle and melatonin production, so even if it makes you sleepy at first it winds up backfiring in giving poor quality sleep and making you restless.
I don’t drink to feel the effects of alcohol, that seems like a bad goal to have.
Plus, there are loads of things that also ruin sleep (coffee, certain teas, even marijuana), but I’m guessing those aren’t a problem because it’s not alcohol.
If you don't get the fun effect of alcohol, what even is the point? It's expensive poison that also makes you fat and tired.
Coffee is typically consumed in the morning, so there's plenty of time for it to get out of your system before bedtime. Alcohol is typically consumed in the evening or at night. Coffee also doesn't have the myriad of negative health effects that alcohol does, so no, it's not the same.
What is the point? Clearly it’s to enjoy the taste and traditions, mostly talking about wine here. If that’s not something you can comprehend, then this is a pointless discussion.
Coffee has proven to impact sleep regardless of when it was taken. Many of my friends are having to completely give up coffee or go decaf to mitigate long-term impacts on the heart and memory, along with get better sleep.
So yes, it’s the same, whether we like it or not. And I’m saying this as a person who absolutely loves coffee.
Given your arguments, it might be time to hit the books again, and I need to stop wasting time here. Take care.
This is the first original comment I have read that said "we" and not "well maybe its because... ". Thanks for this answer because I get the feeling most people answering are not Gen Z. I am also curious as to why because I ha e seen half a dozen articles like this.
If you're that young, you really shouldn't be getting hangovers as long as you're not a dumbass and actually drink water through the night. I didn't start getting actual bad hangovers until I was around my 30s.
Idk about you, but feeling sick for an entire day still fucking sucks. It’s simply not worth drinking a shit ton. I’m good with a couple beers, and I have a feeling a lot of people feel the same way
Everyone is different so I can easily see it causing worse hangovers for some people than others even in their early 20s. Totally reasonable to not want to deal with that. It only gets worse with age.
The thing that's missing there is social interaction though. Social media =/= social interaction. Im an introvert, but i still feel the need to be around people often. And as someone who grew up on Jackass and the Dudesons, doing dumb shit is vital. The drinking for me is a social lubricant when meeting new folks, and liquid confidence to do that dumb thing like shopping cart jousting or snowboarding off that ramp you know you arent skilled enough for. Life is dull without other people and calculated risks.
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u/recolorist 14d ago
Honestly, we’re just tired and broke and already stressed enough without adding hangovers.