Will the YOLO/FOMO Mentality take over Post-Pandemic?

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YOLO/FOMO

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I am enjoying the bad decisions women are making post pandemic

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didn't SFP just make this thread?

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Yup

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Millennials are now facing (especially again ones my age) another economic recession, inflation, little chance of getting able to ever really retire (when Social Security becomes nothing)

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If any adult is planning on SS for any significant portion of their retirement they’re retarded

I’m waxed, vaxxed, and ready to bump uglies. Granted I’m happily married with kids that I love dearly, but you get the point.

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didn't SFP just make this thread?

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That thread focused mainly on Millennials having a YOLO/FOMO mentality. I'm questioning if it goes even bigger post pandemic. And while my question does focus on younger generation (Millennials/Gen Z) it's a question really for any generation. We've all just been giving a big dose of reality regarding our own mortality, whether we are 75 or 25. Does this change people and does this make people want to live more in the moment?

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Have you ever interacted with the general population?

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Unfortunately yes

My comment was directly aimed at OP who is 37 (I am also) who should be well aware SS is a Ponzi scheme that will almost certainly be defunct in 30 years. Even including it as a factor in your retirement planning at that age is so so stupid.

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Unfortunately yes

My comment was directly aimed at OP who is 37 (I am also) who should be well aware SS is a Ponzi scheme that will almost certainly be defunct in 30 years. Even including it as a factor in your retirement planning at that age is so so stupid.

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I never said I was depending on SS at all. But the reality is the vast majority of the general population (even our age) does expect SS to be there for them in 30 years.

Me personally I think SS will be around in 30 years but inflation will be so bad at that point that it'll be next to worthless. You'll get $3,000/month but a McDonalds hamburger will be $100. The money won't have any real value and definitely will not be enough to retire on.

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What does "FOMO" stand for?

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Fear of Missing Out. Pretty much an unintended consequence of social media. People see other people doing things they want to do and they have to do it as well. They don't want to feel like they're missing out. No delayed gratification.

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Yeah, I don't think anyone besides brainwashed morons and absolute risk-averse pussies will agree that the "biggest thing" an illness with a greater than 99% survival rate for the subject group has reminded us of is our own mortality. My hope is that this gross overreaction angers them that a year of their (relative) youth was largely wasted because of it.

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My 19 year old niece is fully vaccinated and yet still wears a mask everywhere, including outside. I just went to a Walmart Neighborhood Market and the only people who weren't wearing a mask were myself and one other person. My 35 year old friend who has Asthma completely locked down for a year. I just saw her 2 weeks ago and even though we are both vaccinated she wouldn't even give me a hug. She would pull back if I got even remotely close to her.

In general Millennials and Gen Z are risk averse. They've lost any type of entrepreneurial spirit and do live in fear. We are seeing that right now. I would argue that brainwashed moron and absolute risk-averse pussies as you called them make up over 50% of this country.

Need I remind you that it was the younger generation (Millennials and Gen Z) who broadly supported the lockdowns and even several months in trashed states that even attempted to end lockdowns. It was the older generations (and some of us younger people)who never wanted to lock down. The younger generations don't look at the last year as a lost year at all.

I actually did some domestic traveling last year (went to western NC/Asheville in late May, New Orleans in late June, eastern TN/Gatlinburg/western NC/Asheville/Savannah in mid October and the Florida Keys last month. Every trip I took it was all older people. Younger people weren't anywhere to be seen, they were the ones locking down too scared to even step outside. There were a few more on the Florida Keys trip but none in any of the 2020 trips.