Why did trying become uncool?

The Broke Generation by Emma Edwards

May 18, 202618:15Business

There's a creeping cultural narrative that ambition is cringe, having goals is naïve, and if you're still trying to get ahead financially or professionally, you've somehow missed the memo that everything is pointles...

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