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Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 4 months ago (3 children)

... No clear answers?

I'm 35. I make enough to pay bills but a home is still out of reach for me and my gf, together we pull about 175k

When I was 21, expensive drafts were $5/16oz. Cheap ones were $1. Rent was ~$750/mo, utils and stuff brought you close to $1000. I worked 40 hrs a week in a kitchen making $15/hr. I got free food the burritos there were $9.99, fair at the time.

Today, someone makes the same wage, gets 12 hrs a week, the food isn't free when you work there a burrito is $17.99, and the apt I was in is $1750/mo

I wanted to die plenty in my 20s. I can only imagine the bleak hellhole they see and exist in.

...the clear answer is more opportunity, more money, more education, less burdens.

What the fuck happened? Like it was bad for me and my friends. Our parents pitied us. But now a draft beer is line $11 for 10 oz. A cheap McDonald's order is $15.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It's clickbait. There was an article like this a while ago about teens and suicide and they were like, "we have no idea why this is happening!", even though for years people were saying social media was harming teens.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Social media is not the cause. There are so many problems that young people are helpless to do anything about. Congress's desire to restrict and censor internet access for minors has to be more impactful than social media itself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I guess we should say that it's an "intensifier". If you get bullied at school, it no longer stays at school. If there's gossip or someone does something embarrassing it's no longer forgotten, but quickly plastered all over the Internet. I graduated high school in 2004, so I didn't have to deal with any of this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This comment is clickbait if you think social media is only bad for teens

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It definitely has negative effects for everyone, but teens/tweens are the most susceptible to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

even though for years people were saying social media was harming teens.

And that article, had you bother to read it, pointed out that there was plenty of conflicting evidence as to whether social media was the cause, and warned that by mindlessly blaming social media because it is easy might lead us to overlook the real culprit.

But good on you for demonstrating it's point.