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I'm unsure what to really make of this tragic incident. Does the social factors in the US make bankruptcy an extreme embarrassment? Should someone not even at t
by abellerose 6y ago
I'm unsure what to really make of this tragic incident. Does the social factors in the US make bankruptcy an extreme embarrassment? Should someone not even at the legal drinking age be able of gambling to such a debt. One thing I'm certain is the US needs better social programs for young adults. Everyday I think the current generation of young adults are being robbed by the ones in power because nothing has positively changed in the past decades. We instead have increase in rent, homes, cost of food, requirement of university becoming the norm with insane tuition costs and while wages have typically stayed motionless.
- rossdavidh 6y agoProbably there was something else going on. The current U.S. President has used bankruptcy for some of his companies, and this came up during the Republican primary season in 2016 when he and Carly Fiorina, one of the other Republican candidates, were both called failed businesspeople because they had both used bankruptcy. So I wouldn't say that the U.S. culture is particularly one of bankruptcy being an extreme embarrassment; we elected a President who has used bankruptcy. Now granted, occasionally HE says something that is an extreme embarrassment, but that's a whole different issue. I do wonder how suicide rates have been trending during the pandemic lockdown with social isolation and such. No idea if it was a factor here, but I wonder.