The state has let millennials down. Thats why we crowdfund basic needs

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/05/the-state-has-let-millennials-down-thats-why-we-crowdfund-basic-needs
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If the 2000s has taught us anything, let this one point stand out above the others – young people are reshaping democracy just as we create the most absurd memes, syntax, and viral movements you could possibly think of.

For context: it kind of broke my heart to see a US citizen on my Twitter timeline recently made a joke about “crowdfunding an abortion” in the wake of efforts to repeal Obamacare. Twitter clearly isn’t a stranger to making light of misfortune, but it’s still disheartening to see a tweet like that which was off-handed, and frighteningly casual.

That sentiment is not so much humorous on its own terms as much as it blatantly reflects how our generation has become so accustomed to danger, instability and financial stress. In a world of economic uncertainty, we simply have no choice but to develop our own methods of dealing with it. Laughing it off is basically just a given at this point.

In the post-financial crisis world, the experience of our everyday is laden with anxiety and existential dread about unemployment rates, which obviously affects our stability and wellbeing. This is without even mentioning rent prices, housing affordability in general and the rising fees for tertiary education.

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More at link - made me very sad.

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1. Oh for fuck's sake.

The world has never been safer. Poverty, crime, unemployment, casualties of war, hunger, homelessness, deaths via cancer, heart disease, and stroke- are all less than they were 10, 20, 30 years ago, some are at levels never seen before.

Anyone who was an adult in the 60's, 70's, or 80's experienced more 'instability and financial stress' than any of these special snowflakes.

See e.g. https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence, http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/05/news/economy/poverty-world-bank/, https://thinkprogress.org/5-reasons-why-2013-was-the-best-year-in-human-history-392c4888e603