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”.
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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.