Re:Abundance Isn't Going to Happen Unless Politicians Are Sc...
by Braxton1980 on Friday March 28, 2025 @04:49AM
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>The key thing would be the government finally go and improve the situation around mental health care accessibility and a proper social safety net.
You're right but we are so far from this now I can't imagine it being possible until one or two full generations of people die out and we start teaching empathy
People don't fall for drugs on their own - the utter, utter majority fall for drugs to self-medicate for whatever crisis they're facing. Be it perspectivelessness, losing a family member or one's job - across the Western world, governments have completely given up supporting people who hit a rough patch in life, and now it's a situation that is very, very hard to resolve.