I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires and Everything Else

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Tom Ballard

I, Millennial

One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires and Everything Else

Tom Ballard

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Simon & Schuster
30 November 2022

Society & Social Sciences; Humour

After 30 years of his entitled millennial life, one world-changing pandemic and a seismic shift in Australian politics, 'comedian' Tom Ballard has had enough of the smashed avocado jokes. He's furious at the raw deal his generation - and generations to come - have been given, and he's pretty sure things can't be this crappy because of brunch.

Here in his first book, I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else, through the power of jokes, swearing, history, interviews, funny pictures and sass, he shows us how we got here, and why the need for radical change is no joke.

The world is in chaos. It's time for a revolution, goddammit, and Ballard is ready to serve as its glorious leader. Or at least tweet about it to #raiseawareness.

It's not your imagination: millennials really have inherited the bill for our current 'prosperity', and it sucks. Millions of baby boomers got beach houses, free education, jobs for life and a franking credit-fed retirement; millennials have been handed a housing crisis, crippling student debt, the gig economy, a cooked planet, a truly broken political system and now, as a special treat, a global pandemic. For a moment it looked like COVID-19 might radically change things - like housing the homeless and lifting the unemployed out of poverty - but it ended up just making rich people even richer.

Ballard unpicks how we got here and why. He decodes the state of Australian society today and lets his fellow millennials in on just how outraged they should be. Fact-filled and furiously funny, this sprawling book reveals the real joke is how much the ruling class has been getting away with at others' expense, and why a flaccid Labor government isn't going to be enough to get us out of the poo.

By: Tom Ballard
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781761100635
ISBN 10: 1761100637
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 30 November 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tom Ballard is an award-winning comedian, broadcaster, philanthropist and virtue-signaller. He pretended to be cool on the triple j breakfast show for years, then went on to perform stand-up all over the world and front his own naughty late-night show for #theirABC, Tonightly with Tom Ballard. (The program was cancelled because it was too funny). He's also guest hosted Q&A for some reason, and since 2015 he's sat down with everyone from Lyle Shelton to Yassmin Abdel-Magied for his political interview podcast Like I'm A Six-Year-Old.

Reviews for I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires and Everything Else

Fuming, funny and armed with facts. -- Tom Tilley Tom Ballard is one of the most original, fearless and hilarious voices in Australian comedy. -- Wil Anderson As a fellow beleaguered Millennial, Tom is exactly the voice we need in this time of wailing capitalist death throes. Funny but biting, he lays out how the system has screwed us all - and it has nothing to do with avocado toast. Millennials suffer not only from bad timing, they've also found themselves blamed for having the gall for coming of age just as the system buckled down. Tom makes you laugh while you rage, outlining how we got here and why - buy this not only for yourself but for the boomers in your life. You'll never be able to afford a house, so spend your money on this book instead. -- Amy Remeikis In a way that only he can, Tom Ballard has distilled the frustration and fury that Millennials are routinely ordered to suppress. Reading this felt like he connected my heart to my head. Also, it's a damn hilarious read. -- Nazeem Hussain Tom makes me laugh, and think. I'm not sure in which order. This book might be his last but that's ok. He's nailed it. -- Dave Hughes A true barbarian. -- Andrew Bolt