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"The uncertainty facing my generation was not new to me. I have read articles
just like the one I am now trying to write. I have seen the reports. I have
watched the TikToks.
But the life I am living was by far the biggest clue that my generation is
facing a growing economic crisis.
I just was not ready to admit it.
Like many millennial men who have just entered their 30s, I am happy to
self-identify as a stunted youth. As traditional markers of adulthood have been
pushed back, so too has my sense of myself as an actual grown-up. Although I
manage the challenges and responsibilities of adulthood, I still feel as though
I am making my way in the world. I still feel like a kid.
And idealism about my future, instilled in me by my parents, still rang louder
in my head than the reality of my every day. It was like my brain was
bifurcated; still believing in the dream but at the same time understanding the
reality. Despite watching the housing crisis make home ownership more
unattainable by the day, despite the seemingly inescapable burden of student
debt, I still felt the road to economic safety and stability was in reach. I
was going to reap what I sowed. If I just worked hard enough, hustled harder,
created a more successful, economically stable and more commercially viable
version of myself, I too could have my own little patch of earth, just as the
former Australian prime minister Robert Menzies promised to generations before.
But late last year I began an investigation into the economic conditions facing
my generation for the podcast
Who Screwed Millennials. And over the course of
those several months I, in a sense, grew up.
Through hours of reporting and recording, I realised that the life my parents
had would never – no matter how hard I grafted – be mine."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
