There’s Something Very Dark Happening to Millennials and Gen Z Adults
slate.com
America is not a good place to be an early adult.
  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
    631·
    23 hours ago

    There’s that, but there’s also drug overdoses, traffic fatalities, health issues, suicide, violent crime…

    The US is a dangerous place in many ways, it would seem.

      • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        262·
        21 hours 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
          41·
          20 hours 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