“If Millennials are different, it's not because we're more or less evolved than our parents or grandparents, it's because they've changed the world in ways that have produced people like us.”
That's how Malcolm Harris, an editor at the online magazine the New Inquiry, begins his book Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials. It's a smart, contrarian look at the social and economic problems plaguing millennials — defined as people born between 1980 and 2000.
But it's not a typical defense of millennials. Harris, who is a millennial (as am I), makes no attempt to undercut the complaints of baby boomers — namely, that millennials are anxious, spoiled, and narcissistic.
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