{"product_id":"9780316510875","title":"Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The first major accounting of the millennial generation written by someone who belongs to it.\" -- Jia Tolentino, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The best, most comprehensive work of social and economic analysis about our benighted generation.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Tony Tulathimutte, author of \u003ci\u003ePrivate Citizens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The kind of brilliantly simple idea that instantly clarifies an entire area of culture.\"--William Deresiewicz, author of \u003ci\u003eExcellent Sheep\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMillennials 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 \u003ci\u003ereally\u003c\/i\u003e unites Millennials. Namely:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - We are the most educated and hard-working generation in American history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - We poured historic and insane amounts of time and money into preparing ourselves for the 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e century labor market.\u003cbr\u003e- We have been taught to consider working for free (homework, internships) a privilege for our own benefit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKids These Days,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Millennials were the first generation raised explicitly as investments, Harris argues, and in \u003ci\u003eKids These Days\u003c\/i\u003e he dares us to confront and take charge of the consequences now that we are grown up. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120941187312,"sku":"9780316510875","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316510875_p0.jpg?v=1763681483","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316510875","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}