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

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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