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Kids These Days
- Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Summary
Named one of Fall 2017's most anticipated books by New York magazine, Publishers Weekly, Nylon, and LitHub
Everyone knows "what's wrong with millennials". Glenn Beck says we've been ruined by "participation trophies". Simon Sinek says we have low self-esteem. An Australian millionaire says millennials could all afford homes if we'd just give up avocado toast. Thanks, millionaire.
This millennial is here to prove them all wrong.
"The best, most comprehensive work of social and economic analysis about our benighted generation." (Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens)
"The kind of brilliantly simple idea that instantly clarifies an entire area of culture."(William Deresiewicz, author of Excellent Sheep)
Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and immature. We've gotten so used to sloppy generational analysis filled with dumb clichés about young people that we've lost sight of what really unites millennials. Namely:
- We are the most educated and hardworking generation in American history.
- We poured historic and insane amounts of time and money into preparing ourselves for the 21st century labor market.
- We have been taught to consider working for free (homework, internships) a privilege for our own benefit.
- We are poorer, more medicated, and more precariously employed than our parents, grandparents, even our great-grandparents, with less of a social safety net to boot.
Kids These Days is about why. In brilliant, crackling prose, early Wall Street occupier Malcolm Harris gets mercilessly real about our maligned birth cohort. Examining trends like runaway student debt, the rise of the intern, mass incarceration, social media, and more, Harris gives us a portrait of what it means to be young in America today that will wake you up and piss you off.
Millennials were the first generation raised explicitly as investments, Harris argues, and in Kids These Days, he dares us to confront and take charge of the consequences now that we are grown up.
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- Bjørn-Rune Hanssen
- 05-07-18
Crucially insightful
I like to think of myself as well-read and a critical thinker. Malcolm Harris manages to provide well reasoned and evidenced analysis, using mostly information I already knew, that has made me re-evaluate and (most importantly) re-contextualise my personal analysis of our world and situation. While the focus is squarely on the US, that country functions well as a predictor of developments elsewhere, given that American tendencies to extremity has lead them further down the same path most level 4 countries («the west») are on.
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