The answer is capitalism.
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Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers that wouldn't effect company profits
Or, you know, suicide. It's not a good answer, but it is an answer.
Alcohol is technically a solution.
No, it's a solvent.
I mean... yeah. That's on me, I should've specified alcoholic beverages, not just straight up alcohol. most people aren't drinking pure alcohol.
Speask fear yerselefh.
I've seen too much bullshit in this world. Gimme the moonshine that makes you blind.
Methanol has "ethanol" in it, right?
It's tastier ethanol. The M comes from the fact when you drink it you say "mmm that's good!"
Indeed. Makes you insolvent is short order
It couldn’t possibly be the overarching system we live under. Surely there’s another explanation that doesn’t call attention to that. What about social media, hip hop or rock n roll music, the lgbtq, or possibly too much avocado toast and coffee?
The answer is conservatism
No clear answers because the reasons are so numerous.
No clear answers because we aren't willing to ask the correct question: How do we replace the global economy that incentivizes avarice, private hoarding, gluttony, destructive and reckless growth/metastasis, and sociopathy with one that incentivizes pro-social vocations, sustainability, homeostasis with our world, inclusion, and equity?
Our species is working very hard to destroy itself, and the global capitalist economy is obsessed with incentivizing it for selfish short term private profit at all other expense. Any question that doesn't address that reality is just masturbation as the world ends.
There is no eventuality where the situation improves AND billions of humans continue to subsist in service to a few thousand sociopath families. There are only about 3k billionaires on Earth, there are less than 30k 100-million-plus-inaires on Earth, and we're destroying our only communal habitat for billions of people, solely to make line go up for them.
You think maybe it had something to do with when you stole their future and openly showed them that their voices don't matter? Maybe think that coulda put a damper on their spirits?
They just need to apply themselves! I'll have you know that, at the age of 24, I had earned enough to buy my own neighborhood! It's not my fault that they rent one of my 30 million properties instead of pulling up their bootstraps! /s
*no profitable answers
"I was then presented evidence on why late stage Capitalism was directly contributing to the ongoing mental health crisis. Sadly, my hand slipped and pulled the pin on the flash grenade I just pulled out of my bag. Needless to say, the reasoning is still unclear as to why this crisis is occurring."
I've thought about it. I fear for the world my kids are inheriting. My fears are because I know how stupid the people in charge are. I didn't used to know. Now I know that the country is run by narcissistic aristocrats. Honestly, I really get why us millenials are surging in homesteading even though it's really hard and inefficient. It's control. You control more of your own life.
"with no clear answers"
:D
Celebrated Greed and permitted rule by private shareholder PARASITES that do nothing yet demand and get almost everything humanity produces are destroying civilization, humanity, and oh yeah the habitability of our only communal environment that will take millions of years to correct once the problem, us, are no longer around to keep making it worse eyes wide open.
Economies are supposed to exist as lowly tools to efficiently and equitably distribute goods and services for the benefit of the society said economy serves. publicly traded companies don't even care about their customers/products/services anymore, just whatever accounting fuckery and self-cannibalism(layoffs, monopolistic price gouging for inferior products having murdered the competition, tax cheats, etc) will goose the next quarter for the activist shareholders telling them to burn everything for a short term stock bump fire sale, with no sustainable business model that actually benefits society. HBODiscoveryTimeWarnerblahblah comes to mind, but it's happening in every economic sector, including the ones with life and death consequences.
Instead most developed nation states will sacrifice anything to protect their beloved ~~society~~ economy.
We're doomed because even most of the people that suffer from this aren't even willing to admit it out of the sunk cost fallacy. The owners know what they're doing, they just don't care about the societies they came from or any future after them, and they're the ones in charge.
If we cared about the well being of our species at fucking all, we would have to acknowledge as a species that capitalism and the concept of infinite growth/metastasis on a finite world is over and we need to pursue a multigenerational goal of shrinking humanity's footprint to a level our only fish bowl can support, and to instead seek HOMEOSTASIS with the world we conquered, saturated, poisoned, and are still actively beating the shit out of to grow the ego scores of a few thousand sociopath families.
Honestly I'm surprised suicides are still as low as they are, they're going to get worse, because most people, and especially the people in the owner class either refuse to or delude themselves into not even acknowledging the obvious root cause, which would be step 0 to there being any hope at all.
Society shouldn't even tolerate insatiable avarice. We not only celebrate it, we deify it. We make our most successfully, destructively greedy people celebrities, and write articles about how we should emulate the sick, sociopathic fucks. Gordon Gecko should be no one's role model, but here we are.
"No clear answer" my ass.
Crystal isnt clear enough to them
Ya it's not really clear to me. We can all afford food and a roof over our head without a problem. Duh!
/s
AI chatbots are the only possible answer: Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots
Oops nevermind that paper is a complete fucking fraud.
You don’t say? Huh what could it possibly be?
My best Chris Farley voice…ahem. “Gee, that’s a mystery”