"Economic fatigue" nice newspeak for being piss-poor as a consequence of legislative failure to curtail wage theft over the past few decades.

If I fall asleep earlier, I can skip both dinner and feeling sad.

The bread and circuses are getting worse, and more expensive.

I love how I’ve been seeing more and more of these articles, and in ways they seem accusatory of GenZ/Millenials for not consuming.

I’d like to believe that just as much of folks not going out is them realizing from the pandemic that they don’t need to do it to be happy, as it is that they don’t have the money to go out. Just don’t do it. Have a close group of friends you enjoy. Don’t shell out money to poison your mind/body. There can be an upside to this.

I go to bed early because I'm tired ALL the time

What are they to do?
Shrinking discretionary budget, more and more responsibilities at work (multiple roles condensed into one), and a looming sense you are easily replaceable with layoffs and AI tools.
On the other, if you are taught your only worth is your job, there is no point in exploring outside of that, and spending your energy on things that won't make you a good worker.

When you're asleep there's no lonely times.

Those darn kids, going to bed early, and not partying!

(Paywall, can't read – but) I spend over 8 hours per day working before I have time for cooking, shopping, cleaning etc. It's around 9pm when my life begins. Who has time to sleep early?

I’m in bed early, up early, and I don’t go out. That’s been my MO for years now. I like it that way and don’t intend to change it. There’s not much that interests me anymore anyway.

I don't think they are missing very much. Staying out late to "party" has always been overrated. It made a little more sense as a form of entertainment decades ago. These days you can be entertained in a variety of ways. As for social mixing, playing sports, table top games with friends, or volunteering are much more fulfilling activities than late night clubbing. Ryan George has a funny video about how awful nightclubs are.

I have a library a few blocks from my building and my bed is comfy and well-suited to reading.

That's my excuse.

When I was their age we partied all night long and making capitalism successful!

Archived link

https://archive.md/yV5f5

Shows me a paywall

I try be in bed by 1:30am so I can wake up just before my first meeting at 10

Loneliness epidemic aka. they don't conform to the previous social norms.

9pm is what I am for.

Fuck no I'm not, I'll probably get to sleep at like 8am for a few hours. Embrace chaos and disorder.

For me, I don't really even have my nights anymore because of where I work. I only get to see them 2 nights a week. Every week I don't even see mornings much and I only have a sliver of choice to make and that's dependant on if anything is even happening during the daytime that'd require me to have to put off sleep. At most, I only ever gain like 3 - 5 hours of actual free time.