WHAT HAPPENED TO MILLENNIALS: In Defense of a Generation, by Charlie Wells
“What Happened to Millennials,” by Charlie Wells, is a title that might have been expected to end in a question mark.
But instead, Wells, a reporter and editor at Bloomberg News, implies (with a certain millennial confidence) that he is about to definitively explain the history — and outcome — of America’s largest living generation.
He faces familiar combatants: dour critics of participation trophies and job switching, the Australian guy who declared the kids could all buy homes if they’d just lay off the avocado toast.
But millennials are no longer the ingénues to whom trend stories are pegged, unless it’s the “millennial cringe” of tragic socks.
Despite all the hand-wringing, millennials have in fact grown up, are approaching (or have reached) middle-age and in many cases have come to occupy positions of global responsibility. More than half do, in fact, own homes. “Skinny jeans are passé,” Wells writes. “Mark Zuckerberg has passed 40.”
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