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

Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by auntyJemima on Friday April 22, 2016 @07:07PM (#11553158)

Were you not able to make the connection that he wasn't talking about income inequality causing suicides? He was talking about people having less money than before, financial problems, stagnating wages.

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Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by gozur88 on Friday April 22, 2016 @07:33PM (#11553288)

But people don't have less money than before. "Stagnating" doesn't mean "going down".

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Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by ux-app on Saturday April 23, 2016 @03:44AM (#11554596)

  > "Stagnating" doesn't mean "going down"

inflation means that today's $1 can buy less than yesterday's $1. If your wages are not increasing at least at the rate of inflation then you are steadily getting poorer. After all, 50 years ago you could buy a house in my neighbourhood for about $60k, now it's at about $500k (without any significant changes to demographic/gentrification pushing prices up).

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Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by gozur88 on Saturday April 23, 2016 @04:54AM (#11554764)

Okay now, let's all get on the same page here. Wages are flat in constant dollars.

Yes, we all know how inflation works.

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