Long-lasting careers seem out of reach millennials are told to go to college so they can make money, but mostly they just amass debt and then job-hop in hopes of paying it off. The moral structure they produced has been vastly loosened and replaced with a soft, untheorized tendency toward niceness - smarminess, really, as journalist Tom Scocca put it in 2013. Studies show that traditional sources of meaning, such as religion and family formation, are less relevant to the lives of young people than they were to our parents. When it comes to doubting the essential meaningfulness of the world, millennials have their reasons.
