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Chargement... Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generationpar Anne Helen Petersen
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) EllieBhurrut | Jan 24, 2024 |  Can't Even expands on Anne Helen Peterson's viral longform essay for Buzzfeed, "How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation", dividing into chapters by theme (education, the various ways work has become shitty/the 'love what you do' myth/parenting/etc.) with plenty of anecdote from Millennials across geographic and class spectrum. As a reminder, we're the age cohort between 1981 and 1996, so while we've been painted as "lazy and entitled young people" for the last twenty years, we're grown adults trying to keep our heads above water after weathering multiple economic downturns in our adult lives. In general, Can't Even is a good primer on the ways in which capitalism has fucked over society and how we've turned everything from our hobbies to our child-rearing into work, which compounds into exhaustion. She's cautious to not provide flimsy suggested solutions at the end, as these are things that we can't necessarily fix on the individual level and require structural changes. I'd strongly recommend reading cited sources for further information on labor (I read [b:Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary|37003174|Temp How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary|Louis Hyman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1513007876l/37003174._SY75_.jpg|58855306] two years ago and recognized the arguments in the chapter on the gig economy). Also, AHP has a newsletter named "Culture Study" which also looks at this among other topics like celebrity culture and what it indicates. (  ) Daumari | Dec 28, 2023 | This book is a wake up call to make sure we participate in the democratic system in order to elect officials who will make sweeping changes to make work and living better. ( ) ryantlaferney87 | Dec 8, 2023 |  ) Anamie | Nov 23, 2023 | ) KitKat101 | Sep 13, 2023 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: A BEST BOOK OF THE FALL AS SEEN IN: Apartment Therapy Book Riot Business Insider BuzzFeed Daily Nebraskan Entertainment Weekly Esquire Fortune Harper's Bazaar HelloGiggles LinkedIn O Magazine Time Magazine"[A] razor sharp book of cultural criticism...With blistering prose and all-too vivid reporting, Petersen lays bare the burnout and despair of millennials, while also charting a path to a world where members of her generation can feel as if the boot has been removed from their necks." â??Esquire "An analytically precise, deeply empathic book about the psychic toll modern capitalism has taken on those shaped by it. Can't Even is essential to understanding our age, and ourselves."â??Ezra Klein, Vox co-founder and New York Times bestselling author of Why We're Polarized An incendiary examination of burnout in millennialsâ??the cultural shifts that got us here, the pressures that sustain it, and the need for drastic change Do you feel like your life is an endless to-do list? Do you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through Instagram because you're too exhausted to pick up a book? Are you mired in debt, or feel like you work all the time, or feel pressure to take whatever gives you joy and turn it into a monetizable hustle? Welcome to burnout culture. While burnout may seem like the default setting for the modern era, in Can't Even, BuzzFeed culture writer and former academic Anne Helen Petersen argues that burnout is a definitional condition for the millennial generation, born out of distrust in the institutions that have failed us, the unrealistic expectations of the modern workplace, and a sharp uptick in anxiety and hopelessness exacerbated by the constant pressure to "perform" our lives online. The genesis for the book is Petersen's viral BuzzFeed article on the topic, which has amassed over seven million reads since its publication in January 2019. Can't Even goes beyond the original article, as Petersen examines how millennials have arrived at this point of burnout (think: unchecked capitalism and changing labor laws) and examines the phenomenon through a variety of lensesâ??including how burnout affects the way we work, parent, and socializeâ??describing its resonance in alarming familiarity. Utilizing a combination of sociohistorical framework, original interviews, and detailed analysis, Can't Even offers a galvanizing, intimate, and ultimately redemptive look at the lives of this much-maligned generation, and will be required reading for both millennials and the parents and employers trying to understand th Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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