Millennials are slowly becoming larger in number, in fact, they’re now the largest group among the US labor market. While profit in the work place is great, it’s becoming not enough for this group of people. Millennials are extremely willing today to drop what they’re doing and change professions, even at the cost of a promotion. Why are millennials so geared towards social entrepreneurship today?
How did this come to be? For starters, the internet played a big part. Millennials grew up with the internet, constantly connected with one another. Through this consistent connection we’ve seen a lot of collaboration. It’s through the internet that they are more aware of social problems happening around the world than say baby boomers were years ago. It creates a greater chance for these problems to strike a chord with someone bring on a call to action. They’ve become more interested in real meaning to life than just material things like cars and houses.
Millennials are courageous, ambitious, and determined in attempting ideas and business plans to help combat social hardships. They’re also proactive in the sense of rather than letting businesses or the government come up with a plan to help those in need they put their own mind to work to try to think of great solution.
For more on this topic, check out this article at Forbes.com on millennial social entrepreneurs.
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