A review by gdonahue
Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping by and Get Your Financial Life Together by Erin Lowry

2.0

Not a bad book in terms of content, but one that felt pretty tone deaf to a millennial who didn’t grow up in a wealthy or even upper middle class family. I didn’t necessarily think the book was condescending as much as showing the naive monetary incredulity of someone who has always lucked out. I live in a well-educated and not inexpensive small city in the northeast, and the majority of people around me (including retirees and mid-career and emerging professionals) are living essentially paycheck to paycheck. Some of this is mismanagement, but a lot of it is just not earning enough in relation to the actual cost of living, housing, healthcare, etc. I found it frustrating to realize that even “millennial” branded financial advice is coming from a wealthy millennial. Can we get us some social justice finance? I’m just sick of hearing rich people talk about how easy it is to be rich like them.