OK Boomer, Let’s Discuss: How My Era Bought Left Behind

“Jill Filipovic cuts by way of the noise with attribute readability and nuance. Behind the meme is a thoughtfully reported ebook that significantly contributes to our understanding of generational change.” —Irin Carmon, coauthor of the New York Instances bestseller Infamous RBG

Child Boomers are essentially the most affluent era in American historical past, however their youngsters are screwed. On this eye-opening ebook, journalist Jill Filipovic breaks down the huge issues going through Millennials together with local weather, cash, housing, and healthcare.

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Okay Boomer, Let’s Discuss, journalist (and Millenial) Jill Filipovic tells the definitive story of her era. Speaking to gig employees, economists, coverage makers, and dozens of struggling Millennials drowning in debt on a planet fairly actually in flames, Filipovic paints a surprising and nuanced portrait of a era being left behind:

-Millennials are essentially the most educated era in American historical past—and in addition essentially the most broke.

-Millennials maintain simply 3 p.c of American wealth. After they had been the identical age, Boomers held 21 p.c.

-The typical older Millennial has $15,000 in pupil mortgage debt. The typical Boomer on the identical age? Simply $2,300 in right now’s {dollars}.

-Millennials are paying nearly 40 p.c extra for his or her first houses than Boomers did.

-American households spend twice as a lot on healthcare now than they did when Boomers had been younger dad and mom.

Filipovic reveals that Millennials usually are not the avocado-toast-eating snowflakes of Boomer outrage fantasies. However they
are the primary American era that can do worse than their dad and mom. “OK, Boomer” isn’t only a sarcastic dismissal—it’s a recognition that Millennials are in disaster, and that Boomer voters, bankers, and coverage makers are accountable. Filipovic goes past the meme, upending dated assumptions with revelatory knowledge and revealing portraits of younger folks delaying maturity to pay down debt, obsessive about “wellness” as a result of they’ll’t afford actual healthcare, and struggling to #hustle within the precarious gig financial system.

Okay Boomer, Let’s Discuss is directly an explainer and an prolonged olive department that can lastly enable these two generations to really perceive one another.