Rate of suicide in the U.S. peaks among older men, a hard demographic to reach

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Rate of suicide in the U.S. peaks among older men, a hard demographic to reach
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Societies that have been created around the concept that your life is worth as much as the value you produce. People are deeply ingrained with the idea that if you aren't part of the production line then you may as well die and get out the way for the next cog.

To this day, this mentality still benefits the higher up in those societies.

That's not just an idea - its physical reality. You can't get your physical needs met in old age if you didn't win the lotto. Suicide is the retirement plan for most of us non-boomers.

They're gonna be shocked when they see the generation without kids and with unstable retirement funds gets too old to care for themselves. Suicide rates are going to explode.

Also aside from retirement. I see....a lot of people with campers, "homeless" now. Parking their RVs on sides of roads, struggling cause they fell behind on everything HARD. The rates might go up earlier.

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Don't worry, climate collapse of all ecosystems is our retirement in like 3 years or something like that

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