Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
By: Malcolm Harris
3.78
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Everyone knows "what's wrong with Millennials." Glenn Beck says we've been ruined by "participation…
Want to Read $ 12.99"It’s a contradiction: Kids have to be taught how to use tools that will help them reduce their work-time, without it actually reducing their work-time."-Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
"It’s a contradiction: Kids have to be taught how to use tools that will help them reduce their work-time, without it actually reducing their work-time."-Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
"Technological development leads to increased worker productivity, declining labor costs, more competition, a shift in the costs of human capital development onto individual competitors, and increased productivity all over again."-Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
"Technological development leads to increased worker productivity, declining labor costs, more competition, a shift in the costs of human capital development onto individual competitors, and increased productivity all over again."-Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
If you liked the economics plot in Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris , here is a list of 5 books like this:
1. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in David Graeber's The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- economics
- sociology
2. The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
By: David Graeber
3.20
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world--democracy--as seen through the … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in David Graeber's The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
3. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- audiobook
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- society
- sociology
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
4. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- history
- politics
- psychology
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
5. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- nonfiction
- sociology
- psychology
- audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
6. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By: Jenny Odell
3.68
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Jenny Odell's How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- politics
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
7. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
By: Will Sommer
4.09
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Will Sommer's Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
9. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
Want to Read $ 11.30Similar categories in Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
10. Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
By: Anne Helen Petersen
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials—the cultural shifts that got us here, the press… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Anne Helen Petersen's Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- politics
- psychology
- nonfiction
- economics
- sociology
- audiobook
"[Burnout] isn’t a personal problem. It’s a societal one—and it will not be cured by productivity apps, or a bullet journal, or face mask skin treatments, or overnight fucking oats."-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
"It's always been implied that if you fail to succeed, you aren't passionate enough. But I no longer invest in work emotionally. It isn't worth it. I learned that every single person is expendable. No…"-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
"The story of middle-class ascendancy is all about individual hard work. And no one wants to lose any of the hard-won benefits of that work, which helps explain the popularity of the Personal Responsi…"-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
"The idea of a pension was not, and is not, extravagant. It's premised on the idea that some of the profits you help produce for a company should not go to stockholders, or the CEO, back back to longt…"-Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
11. Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
3.26
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Barbara Ehrenreich's Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- nonfiction
- sociology
- psychology
- audiobook
"A thing cannot be conscious without having agency, but it can have agency without being conscious."-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
"Once I realized I was old enough to die, I decided that I was also old enough not to incur any more suffering, annoyance, or boredom in the pursuit of a longer life."-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
"NK, or natural killer, cells, which, like macrophages, attack targets like microbes, do not always kill. A 2013 article reports that about half of the NK cells sit out the fight, leaving a minority o…"-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
"Poor whites had always had the comfort of knowing that someone was worse off and more despised than they were; racial subjugation was the ground under their feet, the rock they stood upon, even when …"-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
12. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
By: Sophie Lewis
3.70
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Sophie Lewis's Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
13. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Kyle Chayka's Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- cultural
- history
- politics
- psychology
- nonfiction
- society
- sociology
- audiobook
14. Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!: How to Take Back Our Time, Attention, and Purpose in a World Designed to Bury Us in Bullshit
By: Julio Vincent Gambuto
3.60
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Atomic Habits meets The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck in this life-changing guide to freeing your… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Julio Vincent Gambuto's Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!: How to Take Back Our Time, Attention, and Purpose in a World Designed to Bury Us in Bullshit book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- politics
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
15. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
By: James Bridle
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching explor… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in James Bridle's Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?"-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
"We can’t read water in the same way as we can’t read data…Working with it makes us more aware of the distance between ourselves and the matter under consideration: it reminds us that we share this wo…"-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
16. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
By: Deb Chachra
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdo… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Deb Chachra's How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- nonfiction
- economics
- history
- audiobook
"We’re accustomed to thinking about making the transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources as one that we are doing under duress, making a sacrifice to stave off disaster. But that’s not wh…"-Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
17. Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity
By: Sander van der Linden
4.03
Format: 368 pages, ebook
Winner of the 2024 APA William James Book Award • Winner of the 2024 Harvard Goldsmith Book Prize •… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Sander van der Linden's Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- social science
- politics
- psychology
- nonfiction
- society
- sociology
- audiobook
"Whereas lies and fake news tend to be simple and sticky, science is often presented as nuanced and complex."-Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity
18. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
By: Brian Merchant
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Brian Merchant's Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- economics
- society
- audiobook
"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
19. Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
By: Rupa Marya
4.31
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Rupa Marya's Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
20. Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
By: Malcolm Harris
3.78
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Everyone knows "what's wrong with Millennials." Glenn Beck says we've been ruined by "participation… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- cultural
- social science
- history
- politics
- psychology
- nonfiction
- society
- economics
- sociology
- audiobook
"It’s a contradiction: Kids have to be taught how to use tools that will help them reduce their work-time, without it actually reducing their work-time."-Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
"Technological development leads to increased worker productivity, declining labor costs, more competition, a shift in the costs of human capital development onto individual competitors, and increased…"-Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
"A hypercompetitive environment sets parents up for dreams of champion children, and then for almost inevitable heartbreak. Millennials of all abilities have grown up in the shadow of these expectatio…"-Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
"School authorities warn students that any deviant behavior on a child’s part is irresponsible because it could have severe and long-lasting consequences for their future, and then they enforce unreas…"-Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
21. The Art and Science of Connection: Why Social Health Is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and Happier
By: Kasley Killam
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking redefinition of what it means to be healthy that introduces the need for social he… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Kasley Killam's The Art and Science of Connection: Why Social Health Is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and Happier book and Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
