UNSW Centre for Ideas

Ok Boomer


Listen Later

Millions of Baby Boomers lucked out with affordable homes, free uni, jobs for life and a franking credit-fed retirement. Millennials and Gen Z are faring less… well, fairly. They’re stuck on a hamster wheel of insecure work, saddled with student loans and crammed into share houses paying off Boomers’ mortgages. How did we get here and how do we fix it? Comedian and I, Millennial: One Snowflake’s Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires and Everything Else author Tom Ballard, and economist and Gen F’d?: How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures author Alison Pennington plot the path ahead with economist Richard Holden (From Free to Fair Markets: Liberalism after COVID-19) and host Jessica Irvine.

This event was presented by the Sydney Writers' Festival and supported by UNSW Sydney. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

UNSW Centre for IdeasBy UNSW Centre for Ideas


More shows like UNSW Centre for Ideas

View all
The New Yorker Radio Hour by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

The New Yorker Radio Hour

6,826 Listeners

The Economy, Stupid by ABC Australia

The Economy, Stupid

27 Listeners

The Daily by The New York Times

The Daily

111,948 Listeners

Festival of Dangerous Ideas by Festival of Dangerous Ideas

Festival of Dangerous Ideas

6 Listeners

Full Story by The Guardian

Full Story

154 Listeners

The Rest Is History by Goalhanger

The Rest Is History

15,592 Listeners

The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

The Ezra Klein Show

15,950 Listeners

The Conversation Weekly by The Conversation

The Conversation Weekly

68 Listeners

If Books Could Kill by Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

If Books Could Kill

9,431 Listeners

The Rest Is Politics: US by Goalhanger

The Rest Is Politics: US

2,300 Listeners