Fortunately for us, the middle-aged journalists-cum-anthropologists at the Washington Post are here to explain the psychological intricacies of those Americans who are roughly between the ages of 18 and 34. Indeed, it seems that just about every day, the Post publishes a new piece “explaining” those beguiling millennials to their grateful readers.

On Monday, the Post published a classic of the genre. Reporter Brigid Schulte (University of Portland, class of 1984) takes a look at a Washington, D.C. law firm that is reducing the size of its offices. But no, this isn’t what you think, i.e. an obvious attempt to reduce costs at a time when the legal market is in trouble. No, Schulte says – the law firm in question is downsizing its offices (“No one gets a conference table. Everyone has one guest chair.”) because that’s what the “millennials” want.