Young people in U.S. dying at high rates

Re:Young people in U.S. dying at high rates by momokoko on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @02:59PM (#21651456)

We've seen that suicide rates in very poor countries tend to be quite a bit lower. This leads some, my self included, to hypothesize that it is the cliff that one can fall off of in society that causes more of these issues.

In the US, a person can go from making an upper middle class salary to barely being able to feed and house themselves in less than a year.

If a person has a criminal record(even a misdemeanor) and no college degree, their odds of any type of success plummet.

With high divorce rates and custody issues, many people find themselves unable to regroup social and spend the rest of their lives essentially alone.

As we have a more and more polarized society of winners and losers, we will see drug use and suicide continue to increase as people lose hope for improving their situation or cannot cope with significant, and likely permanent, regressions in their quality of life.

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Re:Young people in U.S. dying at high rates by dv_dt on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:03PM (#21651502)

This downturn is a uniquely US situation vs stable nations that are both poor and rich. I my opinion it is basically the effects of inequality causing regressions in living quality advancements writ large across the population.

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Re:Young people in U.S. dying at high rates by momokoko on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:10PM (#21651577)

Correct, the US is unique in developed nations in that it does not have much of a safety net so most people tend to fall much harder and faster than they would in another high wealth country.

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