Then I stepped out of their adorable downtown loft space into the street, where fast food workers happened to be rallying for $15 an hour. Most of those workers looked to be under 30, black or Hispanic, and not the least bit concerned with the issues of the white startup kids. Brief chats with them revealed that they were more worried about being able to feed their children, staying safe in their neighborhoods, or juggling community college with three crappy jobs. They were the young people whose families couldn’t afford to send them checks, whose parents didn’t have a basement for them to languish in.
The snake person lie: Most twenty-somethings aren’t privileged | Fusion

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