Class, education and gender found to influence difference in views but anxiety about finances was a common theme
Hard to care about war and climate if you can’t afford rent.
The problems we care about tend to be those that are most immediate to our survival and security.
Housing, food, and financial security are all real problems the majority face, especially young people. Caring about things like climate change or authoritarianism, especially foreign, are a luxury if you don’t know when you’ll be able to eat next, or have nowhere to sleep.
Culture wars are a manufactured problem that don’t even exist, except for the problems the culture warriors themselves create.
Yea, my pyramid is broken.
I check basically all boxes (except the blue one perhaps), yet somehow each segment feels like its gonna collapse any moment. Perpetual anxiety is the result.
Depends on perspective.
Technically I am safer than most humans. I have a job, a flat, etc. I live in a country with a good social net even if I were to lose my job.
Yet still it feels like standing at the edge of a cliff for either no rational reason or many small convoluted reasons.
Shocker that people are more worried about eating than geopolitics.
Isn’t that the point of our current system? If everyone is too worried about surviving, they don’t have time to hold the ‘ruling’ class too account. Can’t take time off to protest, if you do it’s now illegal, can’t get work with a criminal record. The only real difference to slavery for a lot of people, is that sometimes they have choice in their masters.
Work and money worry
youngpeople more than culture wars or climate
Fixed the title. It’s hard to worry about the existential potentially world ending crisis of climate change (especially as we’re told again and again as individuals there’s not much we can do) or about the totally made up issues that are culture wars more than whether you’re going to be able to afford to keep the lights on.
