&gt; needing to sell all of your time&#x2F;energy to keep a roof over your head and food in your mouth and still being told you&#x27;re not good enough is depressing as all hell.<p>This is how it&#x27;s always been. So that doesn&#x27;t hold water.<p>I think the problem is, and you touched on this in your original comment, is that some people don&#x27;t get a chance to &quot;sell their time&#x2F;energy&quot;.<p>The unemployment numbers being quoted everywhere are a joke. Those numbers exclude discouraged workers who exit the economy and those people are the likeliest to off themselves.