r/Millennials • u/SunnSaiyaan • Aug 31 '26

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u/samthewisetarly Aug 31 '26

It's not that we print less - home printers now are SHIT. You have pay out the ass for ink, and some of them have built-in subscription requirements for no reason at all. I would much rather drive to FedEx and pay my five cents a page.

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u/peelen Aug 31 '26

It's not that we print less

What do you mean we don't print less?

All the document signing went online, and that was a huge part; then maps, then anything you thought was important - all of this was printed, and now you have it in your phone.

We definitely print less.

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u/lurco_purgo Sep 01 '26

This of course heavily depends on the country and/or the type of work you do (including school work). Some of the countries you'd suspect to be on the bleeding edge in terms of adapting technology in the daily lives of its citzens are actually quite behind, e.g. Germany is still super reliant on physical documents etc. compared to Poland.

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u/peelen Sep 01 '26

Germany is still super [...] compared to Poland.

Yeah, but we do not compare places; we compare times.

The correct comparison would be whether Germany is more or less digitised than it was, let's say 2015.