Subsidized Survival: The Millennial Illusion

This isn’t the self-made hustle culture that gets glorified online. It’s a generation pretending they don’t need help because admitting otherwise feels like shame and failure.

Even those who look like they’ve made it — shielded by traditional leaning Instagram profiles, steady jobs, travel photos, maybe even a house in a quiet middle-class neighborhood. But quietly, every month, help arrives: a check from mom, a mortgage co-sign, a Venmo for groceries.

There’s a growing economic crisis no one wants to talk about. Entire genera…