Remember all those articles in the early aughts about how millennials were egotistical, privileged brats who copied whatever Paris Hilton did? (Side note: Hey, remember Paris Hilton?) As the Seattle Times put it in 2005, these kids had become "the best-dressed, least-able, least-equipped generation ever."
None of this is true — at least, not any more. Thanks in no small part to the worst economy since the Great Depression, millennials turned into functioning adults. They have a little less disposable income than they expected, which means that consumer companies are now changing to serve them. It turns out that today's 18-to-34 set likes clothes and gadgets and cool stuff just as much as earlier cohorts; they just don't buy quite so much. Read more...
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