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kleinbl00  ·  1686 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits in the last four weeks

"young people with nothing to do" is one of the principal causes of revolution.

Daughter and I watched a bunch of local teenagers push a shopping cart off a cliff in the park last month. Yesterday someone had artfully arranged all the garbage out of a bin on a park bench. Now - those are undoubtedly kids who would otherwise be in school. But "fuck with shit to feel less powerless" is one of the fundamental erosive drives in human society and "powerlessness" and "uselessness" and "idleness" share a lot of real estate on the venn diagram of unemployment.