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Welcome to the Generation's edition of Slate Money,

Your guide to the business, finance, and other news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon, I'm joined by Anna Schimmansky and Jordan Weisman and

Jordan Weisman and Malcolm Harris.

Malcolm Harris, welcome.

Thanks for having me.

You're here to plug a book.

Absolutely, as many times as possible.

Well, you get to do it once up to up. Fair enough. What is it? It's kids

these days human capital and the making of millennials is out from Little Brown

wherever fine books are sold. And you put the word millennials in your

subtitle, you went there. I did. I'm a I like millennials as a

both as a cohort and as a word. Because, you know, there are certain places like Fusion, which banned the word years ago on the grounds

that it was, it conceals more than it reveals, and that there's not much you can actually usefully say about this generation.

We're going to actually let's just jump into this because this is your book, correct me if I'm wrong, is basically predicated on the idea that there is something

you can usefully say about this entire generation and that they are different in some important ways from previous

generations and that like looking at those differences can be illuminating.

Yeah that was definitely how I entered into the project and hopefully something I think people can get out of it is a way to use generational analysis productively.

I would definitely agree that most generational analysis is not very productive.

So you have managed after spending much time writing this book to find like little nuggets

of like useful differences that we can say unite the people born between 1980 and 2000

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