Majority of European millennials believe success depends on outside forces

Evidence

The Washington Post declared them “the unluckiest generation in U.S. history,” because, as The Atlantic’s Annie Lowrey lamented, they were “saddled with debt, unable to accumulate wealth, and stuck in low-benefit, dead-end jobs.” Around the world, millennials felt the deck was stacked against them: More than half of European millennials believed that “success in life is pretty much determined by outside forces.” — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 304

Around the world, millennials felt the deck was stacked against them: More than half of European millennials believed that “success in life is pretty much determined by outside forces.” — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 304

Categorization

• XREF: This externalized-locus-of-control finding parallels the Frankfurt School family-authority research where felt helplessness drives ideological receptivity — a comparative lever for the reader’s existing corpus.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 304