Millennials are ruining everything — cash, napkins, and fake Indian accents
Voices, loose change and what you wipe your face with during a meal: three things the generation born between the early eighties and mid-nineties are changing on this week's Cost of Living.
The Cost of Living looks at three things the oft-maligned generation is driving trends on
Voices, cash and napkins: three things the generation born between the early eighties and mid-nineties are changing on this week's Cost of Living.
A new golden age of voices and voice actors is giving people with accents a firmer place in our podcasts, robocalls, cartoons, in-flight announcements… you name it. But how and why does that matter to what we buy, what we don't buy and even how we feel about our place in the world.
Plus cash has been on its way out of the world for quite a while. What does a cashless society mean for charities like the Royal Canadian Legion as the Poppy Campaign tries out something new in parts of Alberta — digital payments at the poppy box for when you just don't have change.
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And millennials take a lot of blame for "killing" things — say, mayonnaise or Christmas cards.
But what about napkins? The paper towel industry could be the beneficiary of generational trends (and yes we realize that often, the same people who make napkins make paper towels).