It's very very tense right now, under the surface. It would be very interesting to know what proportions of the population broken out by 5-year segments have ad

It's very very tense right now, under the surface. It would be very interesting to know what proportions of the population broken out by 5-year segments have adequate employment and stable housing. I have a notion that things are going to unwind in a rapid exothermic way at a certain critical level of age & responsibility. At 18 you can tolerate a fair bit of risk; at 35, married with a kid, you want to move out of "survival" mode. I would guess that as the "millenials" trailing edge gets into mid-late 20s, changes will be aggressively pushed to a far harder degree. The post-millenial generation is said to be a fair bit socially different (but I havn't looked into how that change is transpiring) - and they will have an even shorter end of the stick. Speculatively, an interesting project would be to build out a dashboard to deduce instability based on age & employment. None of that relates to software, but we see software face to face. I think software is the most affluent part of society right now in general. Other industries appear to be much more unequal with their workers much more exploited.