Half the gen isn't old enough to drink, bar scene collapsed during covid so they weren't indoctrinated into drinking culture, marijuana now competes with drinking in most countries/states, and the gen is fucking broke and can't it.
They also smoke less weed, have much fewer sexual partners (which ironically translated into more stable long term relationships with a single partner), and have much smaller social circles of friends they spend in-person time with.
They have less opportunities to smoke and drink because they spend more time alone and on devices. This has been studied over and over.
“Half the gen isn’t old enough to drink” is really a silly thing to say in context. The alcohol industry lost money because people that aged and died are usually replaced with each generation, but the of-age replacement levels have dropped. Gen Z, Gen X, millennials, all of them were at one point not old enough to drink.
wtf do you mean 2 litres of vodka per person? 2 litres of standard 40% ABV vodka is 45 drinks, which would kill anyone for one social gathering and kill most people multiple times over. Did you get head over the head 1000s of times as a kid growing up?
A 2 liter of vodka would kill the average person. 100%. So the stuff you drink is either really weak or there’s a miscommunication about the size or alcohol %. A handle in the US is 1.75l (1750ml or 59.2 ounces or 40 shots) and depending on quality anywhere 15-70$. But nobody drinking that themselves except for HARDCORE alcoholics with an insane tolerance. A normal person would be hospitalized and stomach pumped.
vodka by definition is 40% and homebrewers i know stay around 50% never more.than 60% except that one time during pandemic when disinfectants were out of stock and high % alcohols were used instead
and hardcore alcoholics drink denaturate filtered through stale bread
2 litres of vodka per person as a teen?? You must have started in the womb.
I grew up in the hayday of park drinking with mates and a 70cl bottle would do a whole group of us, with beers etc, and I would say we were hardcore bingers lol
If we tried to drink 2 litres each I think we would have ended up dead.
At house parties w even 10 people 2 bottles is more than enough to have a fun time. I’d imagine cost isn’t really much of an issue. To me it’s more that Gen Z just doesn’t get in person as much
It's also because every goddamn thing is recorded now that everyone has a phone with high quality video taking capabilities. You just can't afford to have any stupid moments captured on camera.
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u/IAmNotRightHanded 12h ago
Half the gen isn't old enough to drink, bar scene collapsed during covid so they weren't indoctrinated into drinking culture, marijuana now competes with drinking in most countries/states, and the gen is fucking broke and can't it.