All of the things millenials are killing (suggest additions inside)

[pete6032]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/m...-but-subscriptions-might-rev-sales-2018-04-13

Millennials get blamed for the death of many things. Add motorcycles to the list.

The motorcycle category has been struggling in recent months, with shares of Harley-Davidson Inc. HOG, +0.48% off 29% over the past year. Analysts at Bernstein said that millennials’ lack of interest in bikes might be part of the reason.

Young millennials, which Bernstein pegs as adults born between 1990 and 2000, are two-thirds as likely to ride motorcycles as their elders were at this point in their life.

 

[IronWing]

Lack of interest or lack of money? Harleys ain't cheap.

 

[pete6032]

Lack of interest or lack of money? Harleys ain't cheap.

I think it's mostly lack of money. Gen X didn't grow up saddled with student loan debt, nor did they come out of school unable to find good paying jobs. The reality is that millennials just have less. Many Gen Xers wants to label that a function of millennials not trying and being lazy, but it's moreso a function of the world that millennials have grown up in-one that is much more competitive, demands higher levels of education, and pays lower starting wages and benefits. Millennials are just as bad with money and prone to spending on unnecessary crap as Gen X is, they just have less money to piss away.

 

[nakedfrog]

I don't know if motorcycles have the same image anymore, nowadays when I think of Harleys I don't really think of Hell's Angels, I think of middle-aged dentists and lawyers.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Lack of interest or lack of money? Harleys ain't cheap.

Harleys are mid-life crisis bikes, they're for overweight 48 year old accountants who think making a lot of noise makes them cool. They never made much impact with younger riders. Bikes should be appealing to millennials, a 250-400cc or so standard is cheap, easy on gas, easy to ride. You can even get some with automatics so there's little learning curve. Millennials don't buy them. Scooters would be an even better choice, but millennials won't buy those either.

 

[pete6032]

Harleys are mid-life crisis bikes, they're for overweight 48 year old accountants who think making a lot of noise makes them cool. They never made much impact with younger riders. Bikes should be appealing to millennials, a 250-400cc or so standard is cheap, easy on gas, easy to ride. You can even get some with automatics so there's little learning curve. Millennials don't buy them. Scooters would be an even better choice, but millennials won't buy those either.

I think they're more likely to buy a bicycle than scooter or motorcycle.

 

[vi edit]

I think they're more likely to buy a bicycle than scooter or motorcycle.

Yup. Don't need gas, insurance, much in the way of maintenance. Also do not need a parking spot to store them (in an apartment or at work).

 

[BurnItDwn]

I think it's mostly lack of money. Gen X didn't grow up saddled with student loan debt, nor did they come out of school unable to find good paying jobs. The reality is that millennials just have less. Many Gen Xers wants to label that a function of millennials not trying and being lazy, but it's moreso a function of the world that millennials have grown up in-one that is much more competitive, demands higher levels of education, and pays lower starting wages and benefits. Millennials are just as bad with money and prone to spending on unnecessary crap as Gen X is, they just have less money to piss away.

I think Millenials and Gen X are in the same boat, Unless you are counting half of Gen X as a MIllentiul.

 

[pete6032]

Millennials are apparently killing canned tuna because opening a can is too much work for them, StarKist Tuna exec says

 

[repoman0]

Millennials are apparently killing canned tuna because opening a can is too much work for them, StarKist Tuna exec says

Maybe it's just that canned tuna sucks

Has anyone posted about millennials killing the divorce industry yet? Think of the lawyers

 

[lxskllr]

Maybe it's just that canned tuna sucks

Has anyone posted about millennials killing the divorce industry yet? Think of the lawyers

Canned tuna's awesome if you get the right tuna...

https://americantuna.com/

 

[ultimatebob]

Maybe it's just that canned tuna sucks

Has anyone posted about millennials killing the divorce industry yet? Think of the lawyers

My wife likes the StarKist flavored tuna in a foil bags. She's not a Millennial, though.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Millennials are apparently killing canned tuna because opening a can is too much work for them, StarKist Tuna exec says

"Some of them, may not even own can openers"... WTF? How do they eat Baked Beans? Or do they not eat Baked Beans, outside Beantown.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Food.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Question I was asking during last year's total solar eclipse.

Turned out they weren't.

 

[zinfamous]

Millennials are apparently killing canned tuna because opening a can is too much work for them, StarKist Tuna exec says

I've never enjoyed the taste of cat food, so I am with the Millennials on this.

 

[ultimatebob]

I'd say opiates, but the topic is about things that millenials are killing and not things that are killing millenials.

 

[Ichinisan]

Question I was asking during last year's total solar eclipse.
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Turned out they weren't.

How do you explain what happened?

 

[FeuerFrei]

How do you explain what happened?

You've got questions ... I've got blank stares.

 

[Red Squirrel]

You've got questions ... I've got blank stares.

You work for Radioshack?

 

[momeNt]

Millenials probably mostly just value general safety hence less motorcycle purchases.

Gen X - vaccines cause autisms, motorcycles are cool, MAGA.

Millenials- Global warming is real, vaccines protect the population, and not safety first, its safety always.

 

[Sonikku]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/stop-blaming-millennials-killing-economy/577408/

 

[ultimatebob]

Millenials probably mostly just value general safety hence less motorcycle purchases.

Gen X - vaccines cause autisms, motorcycles are cool, MAGA.

Millenials- Global warming is real, vaccines protect the population, and not safety first, its safety always.

I thought that the Boomers were the MAGA supporters. Basically, 2016 is what happens when kids stay home and let their parents and grandparents vote for them.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I thought that the Boomers were the MAGA supporters. Basically, 2016 is what happens when kids stay home and let their parents and grandparents vote for them.

Not even close. Kids always vote at a rate far far far below older demographics. Even in eras of greatest 18-25 year old voter discontent like now or the Vietnam era they don't bother showing up, mostly because they're lazy fuckups and partially because they feel nobody represents them. Clinton is what happens when kids stay home and let their parents and grandparents vote for them. Obama is what happens when kids stay home and let their parents and grandparents vote for them. Bush, Nixon, Kennedy, Reagan and Carter are what happens when kids stay home and let their parents and grandparents vote for them. Millennials are stupid, lazy, apathetic and happiest when rubber-necking other peoples lives rather than taking charge of their own. But at least in regards to voting they're no worse than, and possibly even marginally better than some of the generations that went before them. It's pretty much on everything else that they fail.

 

[momeNt]

Not even close. Kids always vote at a rate far far far below older demographics. Even in eras of greatest 18-25 year old voter discontent like now or the Vietnam era they don't bother showing up, mostly because they're lazy fuckups and partially because they feel nobody represents them. Clinton is what happens when kids stay home and let their parents and grandparents vote for them. Obama is what happens when kids stay home and let their parents and grandparents vote for them. Bush, Nixon, Kennedy, Reagan and Carter are what happens when kids stay home and let their parents and grandparents vote for them. Millennials are stupid, lazy, apathetic and happiest when rubber-necking other peoples lives rather than taking charge of their own. But at least in regards to voting they're no worse than, and possibly even marginally better than some of the generations that went before them. It's pretty much on everything else that they fail.

Found the boomer or gen-x that can't stand millenials.