U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High

Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by leaveyou on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:22PM (#11551910)

I upvoted both of you but you seem to contradict each other.. now I start to question my clarity.

I think capitalism became very good at optimizing for profit and it pushes aside faster than ever anything that stays in it's path (and now that's more and more people).

>We severely undervalue social value for material value

Unfortunately the market has spoken: material value.

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Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by toomuchtodo on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:57PM (#11552163)

> Unfortunately the market has spoken: material value.

Society is what we make of it. We still have a choice.

Also, kudos to everyone up the chain in this subthread; this is the discourse I expect when coming to HN.

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Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by deepnet on Friday April 22, 2016 @05:12PM (#11552583)

> the market has spoken:

The extent that the market is a free market is much debated.

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Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by leaveyou on Friday April 22, 2016 @05:17PM (#11552614)

I should have used quotes (") around market but I already used my quota of quotes today..

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Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by ArkyBeagle on Friday April 22, 2016 @10:41PM (#11553869)

"Underlying social value" is oh so much harder to measure. whose social; whose value?

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