{"product_id":"generation-desperation-alexander-hurst-9781399728294","title":"Generation Desperation","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Somewhere in the multiverse, innumerable possibilities are collapsing into infinite different realities. Am I happier in any of them? I still don't know. The answer to that question is just one more thing that $1.2 million could never buy.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2020, Alexander Hurst was 29 years old and broke, living as a writer in a cramped Paris flat-share. There were murmurs that a global pandemic was coming. Financial stability seemed unattainable, so far removed from his reality - the reality of the generation who came of age during the 2008 financial crisis. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn a whim, he poured his meagre savings into highly risky options trading. Within a year this small set of stocks was worth $1.2 million. Enough to turn his life on its head - but not in the way he had imagined, as he began a slow motion descent into losing it all. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn exploring Alexander's remarkable rise and fall from wealth, Generation Desperation grapples with the vital questions of our age: what do class and status mean in a late-stage capitalist society? Can everyone really build the life they want? Or is there a cost to pursuing money above everything?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeneration Desperation is an urgent, unmissable fable for our times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alexander Hurst","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49433238536435,"sku":"9781399728294","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781399728294.jpg?v=1783024612","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/generation-desperation-alexander-hurst-9781399728294","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}