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<p>[QUOTE="ewomack, post: 4153043, member: 15588"]Designating an age group as "millennials" and reducing them down to certain behaviors or beliefs has its conveniences, and some of these generalizations may hold true, but they can also mislead. Very likely many so-called "millennials" do collect things, the question is whether they collect in greater or lesser numbers than other generations. I'm not sure if anyone knows the answer to this question exactly. After all, it's pretty difficult to survey <i>every single</i> millennial, so a lot of the information about these groups, out of necessity, comes from sampling or other techniques and these smaller data samples get extrapolated to a larger population, probably with significant margins of error.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be interesting to know similar statistics from the previous four or five decades. Did young people in 1970 collect as much as the same age group today? How about the 1960s? Have young people ever had enough income to collect to any significant degree? I don't know, but it would be interesting to see if there is any consistency in this claim over time. When I was in my 20s, I didn't know a single person who could afford expensive antiques or rare collectibles of any kind. Still, some of them collected things, but things that fit with their budgets or lifestyles. Collecting, especially serious collecting, really seems to be an activity of the aged and moneyed. It kind of has to be due to the generally low incomes of the young, which seem even lower than previous generations from what I'm reading and hearing. Is there any way to tell if people will start collecting at some point in their lives? Probably not. Does it really matter in the long run? Probably not.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.greensburgdailynews.com/opinion/columns/millennials-don-t-collect-really/article_c3bcac3c-a474-5e07-b3b6-c3a39b8ab98d.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.greensburgdailynews.com/opinion/columns/millennials-don-t-collect-really/article_c3bcac3c-a474-5e07-b3b6-c3a39b8ab98d.html" rel="nofollow">This article about milennials and collecting</a> concludes with "It is the belief of some in the antique community that our children no longer have an interest in collecting. The way I see it, as with so many other things, they do it, they just don’t do it the way we did!"[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ewomack, post: 4153043, member: 15588"]Designating an age group as "millennials" and reducing them down to certain behaviors or beliefs has its conveniences, and some of these generalizations may hold true, but they can also mislead. Very likely many so-called "millennials" do collect things, the question is whether they collect in greater or lesser numbers than other generations. I'm not sure if anyone knows the answer to this question exactly. After all, it's pretty difficult to survey [I]every single[/I] millennial, so a lot of the information about these groups, out of necessity, comes from sampling or other techniques and these smaller data samples get extrapolated to a larger population, probably with significant margins of error. It would be interesting to know similar statistics from the previous four or five decades. Did young people in 1970 collect as much as the same age group today? How about the 1960s? Have young people ever had enough income to collect to any significant degree? I don't know, but it would be interesting to see if there is any consistency in this claim over time. When I was in my 20s, I didn't know a single person who could afford expensive antiques or rare collectibles of any kind. Still, some of them collected things, but things that fit with their budgets or lifestyles. Collecting, especially serious collecting, really seems to be an activity of the aged and moneyed. It kind of has to be due to the generally low incomes of the young, which seem even lower than previous generations from what I'm reading and hearing. Is there any way to tell if people will start collecting at some point in their lives? Probably not. Does it really matter in the long run? Probably not. [URL='https://www.greensburgdailynews.com/opinion/columns/millennials-don-t-collect-really/article_c3bcac3c-a474-5e07-b3b6-c3a39b8ab98d.html']This article about milennials and collecting[/URL] concludes with "It is the belief of some in the antique community that our children no longer have an interest in collecting. The way I see it, as with so many other things, they do it, they just don’t do it the way we did!"[/QUOTE]
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