Suicides Have Increased. Is This an Existential Crisis?
Thomas D from Brooklyn said it best...<p>&quot;I find this essay to be incredibly simplistic.<p>You blame the increased suicide rate on the diminished role of religion in our lives and a lack of “neighborliness” with our neighbors? Really?<p>Just off the top of my head, here are a short list of factors you did not consider:<p>- The worst income inequality our country’s seen in a CENTURY.<p>- Most Americans — and statistics back this up — dislike or literally hate their jobs... Which they find meaningless.<p>- Millions are working 2 and even 3 jobs on starvation wages.<p>- Millions of Americans are overwhelmed with student debt.<p>- Our country has no guaranteed paid parental leave.<p>- Our for-profit health care system leaves millions uncovered — and millions more “covered,” but unable to afford to actually use their coverage.<p>- Unlike all other major countries in the world, we have ZERO guaranteed paid vacation.<p>- We work too much — we work longer hours than almost any other industrialized country.<p>- Because of this sad fact, what time we have left over for leisure and spending time with family and friends is severely limited.<p>- We have a deeply corrupt political system in which all of us recognize that it’s only the super-rich and corporations who get what they want — decade in and decade out.
- We live in the Wild, Wild West of “anything goes” for corporations — including raping our environment and monopolizing... resulting in higher bills for us, less innovation, little to no competition and so forth.<p>Need I go on?&quot;