What is "the millennial condition", and why does it evoke "malaise"? What do these terms even mean? If anxiety is a normal and expected psychological and physiological reaction to exploitative labour conditions, hustle culture, and the looming threat of climate change, what is the point of pathologizing it as a mental illness? Many (if not all) of Rooney's characters invoke these questions through their own relationships to labour, sexual/romantic intimacy, and friendship. In this episode, Cassandra Luca joins me to interrogate how structures and systems of capitalism negatively impact our personal connections and overall wellbeing vis-a-vis Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You.