Like their American counterparts, the current generation of Swedish teenagers is the first since the Great Depression to be financially worse off than their parents. Unstable employment opportunities have turned them into nomads who have to live light to get by. 

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This lifestyle inspired photographer Sannah Kvist to photograph students next to heaps of their belongings, showing how they do more with less. Welcome to the 21st century, Millennials — your boomer parents would help you out, but they’re too busy dying alone in their suburban McMansions.

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