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More Young People Are Lonely – and They're Using Drink and Drugs to Help
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- jdkee 7y agoFTA: "Human beings evolved to live in tribes," he continues. "We are the first humans ever to try to disband our tribes. The figures on loneliness are just shocking." To wit: "Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia." and “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” -Kurt Vonnegut
- diogenescynic 7y agoWorkplace stress and cost of living have to be factors. Our generation is stressed out and maxed out in so many ways. Even if you go to a good college, get a good degree and “do everything right” workplaces have no loyalty, they outsource mercilessly, and all the essentials like housing, healthcare, and college cost 10x what our parents generation paid. But hey, we’ve got cheaper TVs and computers... productivity is way up but none of the gains have benefitted workers or society. We need to start taxing billionaires and redistributed wealth to the workers. Enough of this extreme income/wealth inequality.
- sunstone 7y agoPerhaps the strict drunk driving laws are now killing more people from loneliness than they preserved from car accidents.