The for-profit crowdfunding platform’s annual “Year in Help” report, released Tuesday, underscored ongoing concerns around affordability. The number of fundraisers started to help cover essential expenses such as rent, utilities and groceries jumped 20%, according to the company’s 2025 review, after already quadrupling last year. “Monthly bills” were the second fastest-growing category … CEO Tim Cadogan … said GoFundMe can see that people are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living.
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Astonishing how peer to peer social solidarity, practices resembling grassroots socialism are increasingly embraced by demographic groups typically associated with the most conservative American ideologies…
They say we don’t need government handouts because people help each other, while the helper-types they lean on (aka socialists) are the exact demographic they would see shot if they had the chance.
They’re nothing if not morons.
The number of GoFundMe fundraisers in 2025 for the category of “essential” spending jumped 20%…
And yet people idolise billionaires and politicians who enable them.