Hypothesis as to one reason why Gen Z and younger don’t drink alcohol nearly as much as previous generations: young people do incredibly stupid things while drunk (even worse than older people who have tolerance, experience and more maturity), and they are a smart phone generation where anything might get recorded.
IOW, too many people embarrassed themselves not just for a night as we did, but forever, and collectively they just understood it was a bad idea to go there.
They’re also objectively poorer than prior generations and booze is expensive
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The Greatest and Silent generations drank less than their forebears for economic reasons too
It was illegal when some of them were growing up too. But think they still drank way more than the current younger generations.
