This is much better than trend in your writings, I think. Thanks.
To paraphrase back to the Obama campaign for a minute, “If you want Change, keep it in your pocket.”
All of the power (and votes) of the American Engine is really funneled through the cash registers. We are what we spend money on.
Witness the panic as electric cars take money away from petroleum companies as well as highway revenue. Every state is scrambling to invent new ways to tax the purchase or license of electric vehicles.
The only thing consumers did was shift money from oil to electric with very little change in the amount spent.
Imagine what happens when they work at home and stop buying new cars (and trucks).
Millennials tend toward apartments rather than houses. That affects every consumption model in play.