Kids These Days...And Yesterday, And Tomorrow
Boomers were greedy. GenX was full of slackers. Millennials are lazy. Maybe the whole idea of generations is the problem, not the people in them.
June 1, 201813m 38s
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Show Notes
Economist John Quiggin wants to change the way we talk about millennials. That is, he thinks we should stop talking about them altogether. In a recent New York Times editorial, Quiggin argued that the notion of generations is a pop-culture myth. He thinks we should focus on how people are affected by more significant traits like class, gender, and age.