This is How Economic Crisis and Precarity Shaped the Millennial Generation
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
How do Millennials view investing and spending? How do the rising costs of healthcare, education, and housing affect their economic outlook? How does fear of climate change affect one's long-term life choices? These questions are crucial for understanding the perspective of Millennials as they increasingly enter middle age. On this week's episode, we speak with freelance writer Karen Ho about her perspective as both a member of this generation and a journalist who has covered their attitudes about money.
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| 0:00.0 | The media alone can't ease the tensions that come from the debate surrounding the issues we deal with every day. |
| 0:05.7 | However, we can create spaces where people can freely kick the tires of their preconceived notions. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Tim O'Brien, and I'm the senior executive editor at |
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| 0:18.1 | problems with the facts in mind. Because context changes how you see things and |
| 0:22.4 | how you change things. |
| 0:23.6 | Context changes everything. |
| 0:25.6 | Start exploring our opinion coverage and more at Bloomberg.com slash subscribe. Hello and I'm Tracy Allaway. I always forget, are you a millennial? I know. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Joe Wisenthall. |
| 0:50.0 | And I'm Tracy Allaway. |
| 0:51.0 | Tracy, I always forget forget are you a millennial? |
| 0:54.7 | I knew I knew this was going to be the first question |
| 0:57.3 | that you asked me on this episode. |
| 0:59.7 | I am I believe what is known as an elder millennial basically sort of on the cusp of the |
| 1:08.4 | millennial generation depending on where you define it but you know if you define it as kids born from the 1980s |
| 1:16.0 | onwards I'm definitely there and if you define it as the children of baby |
| 1:20.4 | boomers I'm definitely there. |
| 1:23.1 | You're an older millennial. |
| 1:24.6 | No, I was born in 1980, so I think I missed it by that definition. |
| 1:28.8 | But here's my question. |
| 1:30.2 | Did you use Facebook when you were in college? Yes, but only because only because our college got it early. |
| 1:38.0 | To me that is the, like in my view, that is the crucial dividing line between millennial and Gen X |
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