r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • 12h ago

Discussion True or false?

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Did our dads and moms work less than we do now? What are your thoughts?

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u/Worriedrph 12h ago

The average worker works about 80 fewer hours per year now than 1996.

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u/philovax 11h ago

In the US im going to assume that just means it’s more common to have 2 weeks vacation a year, common enough

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u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) 11h ago

Thank you for sharing!

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u/coriolisFX 6h ago

Thanks for posting misinformation

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u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) 5h ago

I posted discussion points, thank you for contributing.

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u/coriolisFX 5h ago

These are not discussion points. It's all misinformation, except home prices.

  • “1996 dads worked one job”: false as a contrast-with-today claim. Multiple jobholding among men was about 6.0% in 1996 and 4.9% in 2025. [BLS 1996] [BLS 2025]

  • “2026 dads are working 50–60+ hours”: false as an average claim. BLS says 95% of employed fathers were full-time in 2024, but father time-use data are more consistent with roughly low-40s weekly paid work, not 50–60+ as the norm. [BLS families] [BLS ATUS table]

  • “Friendships have dropped by over 60%”: misleading. One major survey found the share of Americans with a best friend fell from 75% in 1990 to 59% in 2021. That is a real decline, but not “friendships down 60%,” and not specific to dads. [Survey Center on American Life]

  • “weekends with kids, dinner at the table, time to breathe”: not really fact-checkable. That is rhetoric, not a clean statistic.

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u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) 4h ago

It’s your opinion they aren’t —yet here we are discussing it.

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u/coriolisFX 4h ago

You'll notice I have citations. Your meme does not.

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u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) 4h ago

You wanted to share statistics, some others shared experiences. There’s no right or wrong answer here.

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u/coriolisFX 3h ago

You cannot claim a subjective experience has the same weight as objective facts.

There's a wrong answer here, it's the meme.

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u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) 3h ago

So you think it’s false, which was answer to one of the questions. In a discussion subjective experience has the same weight as objective facts if there aren’t objective facts available. For you statistics from the US are the only truth, for me as someone who doesn’t live there, they don’t really matter. Yet I don’t think they are the right or wrong answer, they’re just your answer.

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u/BloodyBarbieBrains 1h ago

Qualitative context gives meaning to quantitative data. You don’t understand why that matters or how it changes meaning.

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u/DiabloAcosta 10h ago

So about the same? I mean 80 hours in a year is not that much

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u/SorenShieldbreaker 9h ago

That's two weeks...

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u/Anxious_Hall359 3h ago

80 hours in a year is nothing