The effects of capitalism
Yes. We keep trying to solve the burnout problem by armoring those suffering with self care and not trying to change the cause of the problem.
Capitalism and most of the rest of society has taken David’s slingshot and gave him a pillow to rest on. While Goliath was made stronger.
Kathryn Minersubstack.comthose with mental illness are much less likely to complete higher education, and more likely to be in poor health and experience homelessness and other kinds of deprivation. They are also less likely to be in stable jobs and/or long-term relationships
there is a large and growing mortality gap between Americans with and without college degrees. Those with degrees live eight more years, on average, than those without.
The elites had enriched themselves at the expense of the people, and needed to be forced to share their power
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The US already has a crisis of ‘deaths of despair’; first identified as a problem of middle age by the economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton in 2015, such premature deaths due to suicide, drug overdoses and alcohol and other poisonings are now being seen in greater numbers in the young, especially those Americans between the ages of 18-25.
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