Millennials drive for 8% fewer trips than older generations:
we surveyed 2,225 American adults of all ages. On average millennials drive for 8% fewer of their typical weekly trips than baby boomers or Gen Xers.
Moreover, this difference does not disappear when we control for demographic information, proving that millennial behavior is not just about being young, single and low-income. Instead, what distinguishes millennials are their attitudes.
Millennials are more pro-environment than previous generations and less likely to believe driving gives them independence. They also see driving as more dangerous and want a travel mode that offers side benefits such as exercise or the ability to read or use social media.
The generational difference has profound implications for auto manufacturers.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @12:07PM (7 children)
It's not the downfall of union membership that is causing this. Globalization is causing this. Unions were only possible pre-globalization. Globalization is ready, cheap, offshore labor plus increasing automation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @01:34PM (3 children)
Mm-hm is it also causing the 1% and 0.1% to award themselves massive pay increases? Shut up, douchebag.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @02:53PM (2 children)
Yes, it is. If you push all your production to areas with wages far below home levels, where do you think those savings are going?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @04:52PM (1 child)
Cheaper prices? By the magic of the invisible hand.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @06:17PM
Invisible hand works supply/demand, not profit margins on labor.
(Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Sunday July 12 2020, @01:17AM
Globalization is a political choice, not a law of nature.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 12 2020, @03:45AM (1 child)
We need some kind of international worker's association so that unions in different countries can coordinate their struggles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 12 2020, @12:46PM
That would help, but what we really need is for bankers to unionize, that's the real reason why they make so much money in all of this, if bankers just refused to do their jobs for a few weeks, the billionaires would cave in almost immediately.