There is much bullshit analysis about why rates
of depression, early death, opioid use, and suicide among non-college educated
white males. Well, let’s just try
economic analysis as a way of explaining this.
97% of men in prime working years were working in 1964. The number today has fallen to 83%. In the U.S. 12% of these men are neither
working nor looking for work. That
number was 4% in Japan. That’s millions
of non-college educated white men in the U.S. unemployed. Check out “The Upshot” by Neil Irwin in the
New York Times, June 21, 2016.
Capitalism is
causing even more rot in a society that is fundamentally insane anyway (300
million guns in the U.S. which is the most murderous society on earth, one out
of 4 kids being food deprived sometime during the month, a major political
party denying climate change, etc.) The
solution? Check out the Green
Party. “We are grassroots
activists, environmentalists, advocates for social justice, nonviolent
resisters and regular citizens who’ve had enough of corporate-dominated
politics. Government must be part of the solution, but when it’s controlled by
the 1%, it’s part of the problem.”
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