The Truth About (The Narrative About) Millennials
On the Media | Sep 1, 2016
You've no doubt heard the tropes about millennials: they're destructive and self-absorbed; they're lazy; and, worst of all, they're ruining our economy by refusing to buy homes (or even napkins) and preferring to share cars instead of owning them.
A nice narrative, but almost certainly false (and itself pretty lazy). What's more likely, writes Laura Marsh for the New Republic, is that young people are actually locked out of a lot of these choices. So where do these ideas about millennials come from? Laura talks to Bob about the two popular historians who are responsible for the myths about how young people are living, and why the media love those myths so much.
“We Are Young” by Fun.
