Millennials and Gen Zers are pulling in bigger paychecks, but much of their spending power is fueling short-term purchases like groceries and vacations, not savings.
Having a vacation away from your home isn’t required to rest, while groceries are required to not die. Yes, vacations away from home shouldn’t be a luxury only for the rich, but there’s still a fundamental difference.
Besides super low budget weekends away within 4 hours of home, I haven’t had a vacation since 2010. If not for a friend with a way to do that cheaply, I’ve never had a proper vacation in my entire adult life.
I’m still alive.
I feel like I couldn’t say the same if I went that long without food, water, or shelter.
Not saying I like the state of affairs, but clearly it’s not the same category of “basic need”.
Fuck you for acting as if the growing price of basic needs is in the same category as vacations
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Having a vacation away from your home isn’t required to rest, while groceries are required to not die. Yes, vacations away from home shouldn’t be a luxury only for the rich, but there’s still a fundamental difference.
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Besides super low budget weekends away within 4 hours of home, I haven’t had a vacation since 2010. If not for a friend with a way to do that cheaply, I’ve never had a proper vacation in my entire adult life.
I’m still alive.
I feel like I couldn’t say the same if I went that long without food, water, or shelter.
Not saying I like the state of affairs, but clearly it’s not the same category of “basic need”.
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There’s a difference between vacations as travelling for leisure, and vacations from work as leisure.
Usually, “vacations” makes me think of the travelling kind, not the “break from work” kind.