Link: Millenials and economic justice

On Feministe Millenials and economic justice by Anna Lekas Miller.

It is also difficult to know what standards we should hold for ourselves—how can you demand more when you are told that you should be grateful for anything and know that you are the last ones hired and the first ones fired? How do we know how long to put up with certain conditions—sexual harassment, late pay, expectations to be on call and responding to e-mails around the clock—before our need for sanity outweighs our need for economic livelihood? How do we convey that we are trying our hardest?

I'm Gen X, not Millenial, but this paragraph rang like a bell for me. I've been thinking a lot about what I want, and how much that matters anymore, and where the dividing line is between creative tenacity and taking leave of reality. I've never been very good at settling, but it might be a survival skill these days.