I think this is a load of nonsense, as a successful millennial who works hard. Working hard is just table stakes; you also need to be lucky, which I have been.

I think this is a load of nonsense, as a successful millennial who works hard. Working hard is just table stakes; you also need to be lucky, which I have been. I can look back on numerous occasions where there were literal lotteries that prevented me from getting wrecked, starting with a lottery my young parents got for affordable housing in an area with nice schools and a lottery I got selected for a math and science academy. And there are many more areas where luck played a subtle but serious factor. You also need generational support; in my case my parents worked crazy hard to get me into schools where I could work hard and roll the dice. This snowballs quickly. Deriding people who are unemployed and have inescapable debt as caring about Twitter followers ignores the real dispair facing multiple generations of Americans who worked very hard, got a degree, and were rewarded with a hostile marketplace that didn’t need their labour. They got a raw deal, Netflix and cheap opiates for expensive healthcare and poor pay.