Welcome back rich girls new and old to the money with Katie podcast. I've got a good

one for you today where I attempt to answer a scary question.

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okay those are very scary questions but not the one that I'm exploring today. The question

that we're diving into today is the millennial obsession with financial independence,

a sign of a problem. If you are someone who's pursuing financial independence let me ask you

a question. Why? I know, I know, stick it to the man tap dance on your boss's desk,

drink more low at 2pm on a Tuesday but really why? Recently I was struck by an interesting shower

thought. What does it say about the state of work in the US that there is a small legion of

millennials and elder millennials that regularly fantasize about retiring before their 40?

Why do we want to get out of the workforce so badly?

I wanted to talk to someone who has a PhD in why millennials don't want to work anymore.

My name is Anna Hewlett and I am an industrial organizational psychologist which is a big mouthful

so we usually just say IO psychologist and what that means is that my expertise is the psychology

of the workplace and that can be anything from how to best conceptualize and measure

and track performance. It could be your job satisfaction, it could be diversity and inclusion.

One thing to think about is the evolving context of work over the past century. So 100 years ago

work was really focused on production and efficiency. Humans were considered truly a cog in a

machine and we didn't really think about the impact of work on those humans. So as technology

has evolved over the past century, that has really allowed humans to step into a different kind

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