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Is Burnout a Generational Issue or a Class Issue?

January 8th, 2019 | 5 min read

By Jake Meador

If you haven’t yet, please do read Anne Helen Peterson’s excellent Buzzfeed essay on millennials and burnout.

My first reaction to the essay was to agree with nearly every word of it and pass it on to others. But after having a day to think on it, I started to have another reaction: I’m not sure that Peterson, for all the excellent work she did describing the experience and explanation for burnout, actually knows who it is she’s writing about.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.