Suicide rates in the US are highest among elderly men, and most involve guns, CDC report says
cnn.com
Senior men have higher rates of suicide than average, and firearms were involved in more than three-quarters of those deaths in 2021, according to a CDC report
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So?
We value capital here, not human life.
As an American, shouldn't our glorious free capitalist market celebrate these depleted capital batteries taking themselves out of the equation and lowering the tax burden on our beloved job creators requiring social supports once they can no longer make them money as fast food employees or store greeters?
What kind of Americans would put value on human life that can no longer generate private shareholder value? Smh, ya'll need to find supply side Jesus.
To be fair though, the common method is as American as
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No no no, we must keep them alive on life support for as long as their bank balance remains. Them after that we shall keep going until their entire family line is in debt to us. Brilliant!
Well see, capitalism isn't about productivity. It's about maximizing capital. More consumers means more spending, and more money moving to people maximizing capital. So... Capitalism hates the death of consumers and loves procreation even more.
But you're only a consumer if you have money to spend. If you're broke, you're out of the market.
To be fair, each additional person is a net gain for society's wealth on average.
From earnings and potential earnings, people are. The elderly are the worst consumers by far, any piece of shit proud sociopathic capitalist will tell you that.
Worst? Well, it depends. 🙂 When the elderly are so fucking far gone, their minds are gone, and they require to be put into a home....if they happen to have built up wealth....it is extracted from them pretty quickly. They're a consumer on steroids, providing jobs & income to others. A decent nursing home where I live will run $70K annually, and that doesn't cover medications. Divide that by 365, their family is shelling out, at bare minimum, $191 every single day for them to "live". That's a lot of cash!
And thats a lot of terrible!
Leftists can't do math, or they wouldn't be leftists.
True dat.
You really don't need to talk that way.
I genuinely wish I didn't.
But Alas, this cruel nation makes respect impossible for me, and in lieu of any power, my only solace is making mockery of our unrepentant oppressors and this exploitation camp of a "society."