Waiting all day for online deliveries and forgetting passwords are the worst “first-world” problems faced by millennial Britons, a survey has found.
Researchers said that one in three of those questioned complained of avocado anxiety — a terror of the fruit not being ripe.
A third of Londoners were concerned there might be another prosecco shortage after supply problems last year. This was almost twice the proportion of those elsewhere in the country.
Researchers working with a behavioural psychologist from Goldsmiths, University of London, compared the biggest “first-world” or trivial worries reported today with those faced by people now aged 50 or over two decades ago.
The 2000 people, aged from 18 to 70, said that they were most worried about technology-related problems such as all-day time slots for deliveries, the difficulty of remembering dozens of passwords and fears about leaving their phone at home or not getting enough “likes” on Instagram.
In contrast, respondents said that in 1997 their worries involved having a happy relationship, earning enough to pay the bills and getting on the housing ladder.
It seems that over the last 20 years our anxieties have changed....Do you stress over mushy avocados and the threat of a Prosecco shortage?
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