I knew the facts about millennials but I wasn’t ready to admit the life my parents had would never be mine | Miles Herbert

It took working on a podcast about what's happening to young people for me to let go of the idealism about my future and face the sobering reality

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The uncertainty facing my generation was not new to me. I have read articles just like the one I am now trying to write. I have seen the reports. I have watched the TikToks.

But the life I am living was by far the biggest clue that my generation is facing a growing economic crisis.