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Maybe something to do with diagnosis means more money selling Pharma drugs? Or is that too cynical?
by bernardlunn 7y ago
Maybe something to do with diagnosis means more money selling Pharma drugs? Or is that too cynical?
- jimbokun 7y agoAfter the opioid crisis, no, that's not too cynical.
- P_I_Staker 7y agoNo, but it's not just diagnosis. There's a troubling tend towards rising suicide rates. This is especially true among middle aged poor whites.
- coldtea 7y agoWell, there's also a declining middle class -- middle aged poor people that used to be predominantly white middle class.
- zdragnar 7y agoBoth middle class (35k-100k income) and the poor groups are shrinking as a percentage of the population. Mobility is upwards, not down.
- coldtea 7y agoI think the main mobility is down, it's just that the measurements are antiquated, and the "inflation adjusted" income brackets defining various groups (or the "subsistence spending multiplier" metric and such) don't take other things into consideration, like the skyrocketing costs of now basic services, healthcare, education, housing, and so on. It's the same games played with unemployed, where people who have given up trying to find work for a few years, or had some temp gig, are magically discounted from the unemployed statistics.
- zdragnar 7y agoThe raw numbers don't lie. Both brackets (0-35k and 35k-100k) have been shrinking as a percetage of the population, with 100k+ growing.