The rates of people diagnosed with depression. Things that were once taboos, had stigma attached to them, or were poorly defined may once have been more often kept under wraps. See ADHD or ASD diagnosis rates, for example.
U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs
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Ah, yes, the corporations are not in their place...
The world was basically a dystopian hell for the non-elite class and only getting worse from the advent of agriculture until somewhat recently (see the Malthusian Trap)...
But today is the worst because you can look back to sometime post-WW2 in the US (and only the US), where - for a few years - things maybe might have been slightly better if and only if you were a white man.
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Statements like this need more of a thesis. There are not enough details in your comment to have any kind of a productive, non-flamebait discussion.
To me, putting them in there place could mean:
- Revoke their "personhood"
- Tax them appropriately
- Prevent them from being too big to fail
- Hold their officers accountable
- Prevent them from hiring public officials
But I'm open to other ideas!
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#14I'm curious how much of this is related to doomerism and heightened access to the 24-hour news cycle.
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I think it is easy to point out one issue like this and blame all of society's ills on it, however, it isn't that simple.
There are many issues at play here. For example: extreme political divisiveness, decreasing real incomes, falling birth rates, increased competition due to globalization, doomscrolling ...and many others.
If I personally had to pick the largest factor, I would blame social media induced anxiety/depression due to the personal issues that arise from comparing your life to the artificial portrayals. That and the dopamine addiction from tiktok, snapchat that causes people to withdraw from applying effort in the real world.
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It's not just "corporatations" but capitalism as a whole that strips away any glimpse of hope from current working generations. As long as anywhere you go workplace dictatorships and parasitism are celebrated, and considered natural norms, how can folks project themselves in the future?
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#171. Media narratives and sites like reddit -> focusing on the extremes is robbing people of the qualities of the life around them.
2. Keeping up with the Jones per se in the world of social media really knocks people down.
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#18The rates of people diagnosed with depression. Things that were once taboos, had stigma attached to them, or were poorly defined may once have been more often kept under wraps. See ADHD or ASD diagnosis rates, for example.
Depression is not a disease for most people.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does that follow? The implication is that the USA would have less depression if there were no corporations. I disagree.
As much as I disagree with engaging with GP's non-comment, I also don't think this is really steel-manning their assumed point-of-view. Likely they are thinking of a society where corporations are "different" rather than "abolished".
Though you are correct, any sufficiently "different" type of corporation, I would argue is no longer a corporation in the sense we are referring to now.