This is a microcosm of the whole world, but the statistics about white, middle-aged suicide increasing so much in the west indicates to me a profound suffering,

This is a microcosm of the whole world, but the statistics about white, middle-aged suicide increasing so much in the west indicates to me a profound suffering, exactly where the article is claiming middle class people are getting some hidden benefit that makes up for the rich getting richer. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/23/521083335/the-forces-driving-middle-aged-white-peoples-deaths-of-despair https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/23/5210833...