The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive

The Atlantic ^ | October 15, 2019 | Derek Thompson

[FamiliarFace]

It’s so true. They are like a one trick pony.

[Robert DeLong]

mentions the hard labor of drinking whiskey

Pretty sure that was intended as a sardonic statement.

[jimmygrace]

You think it’s expensie now, just wait until medicare for all and living wages kick in...

[GOPJ]

I don’t know if it makes sense, and I don’t know how long it’s going to last.

IF the food is good it's an excellent form of advertising.

Rather than paying the New York Times a few thousand to run an ad that hits people all over the city - and sometimes all over the country (wasted effort) this ad ONLY targets people who self-select they might become future customers.

If I'm reading the New York Times and I live in Florida I'm NOT going to visit that restaurant - and the owner has thrown away his ad money.

[Nothingburger]

The only thing I got out of this story was a reminder of how much I hate millennials.

[coon2000]

so you get it, right?

[Black Agnes]

They don’t plan for a future because they’ve been taught, since their earliest memories, that we don’t HAVE a future.

Climate crisis is real to them.

They’re enjoying what they can now.

Eat, drink and be merry, etc.

They think “Why save a dollar or two a day for a future that will never get here?”

[FamiliarFace]

Good point. They blame all their woes on baby boomers who ruined everything for their generation.

[Lou L]

I have long struggled to see how there could be any payoff in the "DoorDash," "Uber Eats," or similar companies. The restaurants are going to get their cut, because they're gonna charge the same price (is this accurate?)

That leaves a battle between the drivers and the food delivery companies. How much extra are people going to spend in order to have a $6 McDonald's Big Mac value meal delivered to them?

$5? $10?

At what point does it make more sense to just go yourself? (Or, are these companies charging a percentage for delivery?)

Let's be generous and say that customers are willing to pay $15 for every delivery. How much of that goes to the driver, and how much goes to Uber Eats or Door Dash?

From a driver's standpoint, they've got to go to the restaurant, wait for the order, and then deliver it to the customer. What does that take total...30 minutes? How much are drivers really earning, and at what point do so many of them say, "it's just not worth it."

[Don W]

We lived and survived a far more real threat than this Climate Crapola.

Nuclear war and MAD far surpass the nebulous nonsense the millennials pretend to be worried about.