Landlord hate and Nepo Babies: how young people lost faith in capitalism
JUN 6, 202327 MIN
Landlord hate and Nepo Babies: how young people lost faith in capitalism
JUN 6, 202327 MIN
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<p>Hating capitalism isn't just a left-wing project anymore.</p><p>Even in 2018, 59 per cent of Australian Millennials believed that capitalism had failed.</p><p>Since then the mood has only darkened, with vitriol for landlords, Nepo Babies and Depop resellers who flip secondhand clothes for a profit, rife on social media.</p><p>Under-40s are abandoning the centre in record numbers, but not everyone is lurching left.</p><p>The multiverse of Gen Z political identities on the Internet has rendered the left-right spectrum obsolete.</p><p>Meanwhile, Millennials are in the process of becoming the first generation in modern history not to drift to the centre-right as they age.</p><p>So how did we get here, and if the better part of two generations has lost faith in capitalism, then what happens next?</p>