There’s Something Very Dark Happening to Millennials and Gen Z Adults
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America is not a good place to be an early adult.
    • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      302·
      2 days ago

      From an outsider’s POV (I’m Canadian) I see 2 main causes: private for-profit healthcare and almost unlimited access to guns.

      Fixing those two would go a long way towards changing the death rate.

      • marron12@lemmy.world
        45·
        2 days ago

        Well, there’s that, and also

        • Having to work really long hours to try to make ends meet
        • Being underpaid
        • No or minimal time off work (vacation and sick time both, and sometimes even medical leave doesn’t protect you all that much)
        • Poor worker’s rights in general
        • Crushing cost of housing
        • Crushing cost of education
        • Food and everything else you need to live is getting more expensive all the time, and the quality often goes down
        • Poor quality of medical care (on top of the exorbitant cost)
        • Not being able to spend much time with friends and family because they’re all drowning in work or otherwise struggling
        • Thinking about the number of friends and family who have killed themselves, come close, or are likely to try
        • derek@infosec.pub
          11·
          18 hours ago

          That’s not a reasonable position. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, its interpretation, and the monied interests lobbying with millions of dollars to make billions selling firearms are endemic to the socio-political quagmire that is American politics.