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U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

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Re: U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

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Post by lordnacho »

candiddevmike wrote: post #13
reaperman wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Let them die more easily. They are immortal after all, there should be a lower threshold for letting them die if they do something wrong.

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Post by 1-6 »

I find it hard to detach from work and focus on my well-being. Work from home was convenient and necessary to a certain extent but I miss being able to get off the clock as soon as I left company doors at the end of the day.

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Post by reaperman »

candiddevmike wrote: post #13
reaperman wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

You also have to explain:

- your concerns about the current status quo,

- how these are causing the current status quo and

- explain what you believe are the expected effects.

It's an internet comment, not an academic essay, so you can just refer to things -- but you're in a diverse forum where most people aren't going to instantly recall the established zeitgeist you're trying to evoke. Many of us aren't familiar with your zeitgeist, so sparse references to it mean nothing to us.

I have no idea what you mean by "citizenship". I don't know what problems this is causing, what the change would look like, and why that would be expected to improve the problem.

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Post by GiorgioG »

ryan93 wrote: post #7
alexfromapex wrote: post #2

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Strong claim. Bet it has more to do with trends like polarization or housing costs or something. Most corporations are providing absurdly cheap goods and decent jobs.

Corporations lobby/bribe politicians to implement laws and polities that negatively impact their constituents. The rest of the world has a single-payer healthcare system that is cheaper and better than what we have. Why? Because the healthcare industry has advertized and lobby'd for it to remain as it is.

Most corporations provide "decent jobs" to a limited subset of people. The vast majority of people are not making 100k/year.

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Post by MattGaiser »

petercooper wrote: post #11

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.

History of left handedness:

https://slowrevealgraphs.com/2021/11/08/rate-of-left-handedn...

Nothing caused the population of left handed people to soar. We just stopped hitting them in schools for using their left hands.

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Post by aww_dang »

reaperman wrote: post #10
endisneigh wrote: post #5

Earlier 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".

I'm not a mind reader so it is hard to identify their POV, but it matches a popular brand of political sloganeering. In the context of depression, I think it is may be easier for people to project their unhappiness upon these faraway and indistinct entities outside of their control rather than deal with what might be the more immediate causes of their unhappiness. From that point perhaps it is worth asking if this brand of political sloganeering is empowering individuals or using a victimhood narrative to advance a political cause.
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