Millennials have been blamed for everything from killing napkins to buying too much avocado toast, so naturally we decided to talk about the economy. In this episode, I’m joined by my former Franciscan University classmate Shannon Kaschak to unpack why “just budget better” isn’t a serious economic policy, what a $3-per-meal proposal says about how poverty gets framed, and how culture wars keep working people fighting each other while wealth quietly concentrates at the top. We laugh. We cringe. We side-eye late-stage-capitalism lunchables.

But underneath the memes and millennial slander, we’re getting into something real: what Catholic social teaching actually says about money, power, and who the economy is for. From for-profit detention centers to speculative tech bubbles to the way marginalized people become political distractions, we’re asking what it would look like to build systems where nobody gets left behind. It’s avocado toast with a preferential option for the poor — and yes, we mean that.