Young people are increasingly using Venmo and Cash App to crowdfund their rent, medical bills, funerals of family members and more.
“[Crowdfunding] recognizes the financial constraints people are under and structural inequalities under capitalism — that some people just have less than others,” said Marwick, the Fordham professor. “The difference here is if you are someone who has extra money, you might want to give that money directly to someone you have something in common with or whose politics you understand rather than an organization where you don't know what direct effect it will have.
“It is hard to fund [a DACA renewal payment], but if I can’t pay for it then I can't work legally in the country anymore,” Pizarro said. “It's a weird cycle of trying to make ends meet little by little.” Nicole Silverberg, a writer for “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” flips the practice on its head: She sets aside money to send through Venmo specifically for people she finds through Twitter. She started about a year ago after reading a tweet on International Transgender Day of Visibility that said, essentially, pay transgender people directly, because verbal support and donations to transgender advocacy organizations only go so far.confirmed by the Senate and sworn into the U.S.
So she asked her female, transgender and nonbinary Twitter followers if there was anything she could pay for to help them — a massage, a Crock-Pot or money for rent, she wrote.
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