Re:No, Teen Suicide Isn’t Rising Because Life Got Objectivel...
by zmgsabst on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:13PM
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To add numbers to this:
A teenager in 1950s would be 40-50 when the productivity-wage breakdown happened [1]. Their generation not only benefited, they caused that for juiced returns on their stocks.
A teenager today was born an entire generation after that decoupling — and has only known a world where their parents were exploited by 1950s teenagers.
I don’t think it’s surprising that a generation where hard work was rewarded was more optimistic than one born to parents for whom that didn’t apply.
A teenager in 1950s would be 40-50 when the productivity-wage breakdown happened [1]. Their generation not only benefited, they caused that for juiced returns on their stocks.
A teenager today was born an entire generation after that decoupling — and has only known a world where their parents were exploited by 1950s teenagers.
I don’t think it’s surprising that a generation where hard work was rewarded was more optimistic than one born to parents for whom that didn’t apply.
[1] - https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/