The dinner party isn’t dead. It just looks different today.
There are indeed few places for teenagers to hang out outside of the home. Skate parks are being turned into pickleball courts with “no loitering” signs, malls are shuttering and you can no longer spend $1 on a McChicken to justify hanging out in the McDonald’s dining area for hours. But as the Atlantic piece explains, the dwindling of places to be... See more
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New Yorkers Are Turning to Dinner Party-Style Restaurants to Make Friends (and Find Dates)
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these days, the art of hanging out seems to be waning in cities.
Allie Conti • Do Yourself a Favor and Go Find a ‘Third Place’
Part of the reason for the shift is that over the course of the 20th century, leisure started to become privatized. Rich Heyman, an American studies professor at the University of Texas told "The Atlantic" that, "As living conditions improved, people chose to sit with their nuclear families in front of televisions." But I guess
... See moreMina Le • Third Places, Stanley Cup Mania, and the Epidemic of Loneliness
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Gen Z and Millennials are seeking more IRL. High end social clubs are on the rise. Flip phones are back in. We want to spend more on experiences, less on stuff. Remote work is forcing everyone to seek in-person connection and community elsewhere.
Despite this, existing social clubs are struggling to survive and not e
... See moreThe common denominator amongst millennials, then, is that we’ve been inculcated with the idea of that failure—like our failure to find secure employment, or save enough money to buy a house, or stave off an avalanche of medical debt—can be chalked up to simply not trying hard enough.
Anne Helen Petersen • Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Even IRL socializing becomes a numbers game, where networking and schmoozing become the standard and everything needs to be a Brand Actvation or pop-up or pseudo- Community event with 3 fliers. True, quality intimacy seems to be going the way of cursive handwriting.
Mark Sabino • It’s All Sweetgreen
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"It's not necessarily that different generations hold different attitudes about work," Damaske argued. "For millennials and for some members of Gen Z, they've witnessed two recessions, back-to-back. This is a very different labor market experience than what their parents and grandparents encountered."
Vox • Gen Z does not dream of labor
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