America has 2 core problems leading to intense despair: low wages and lack of community. Substance abuse, screen addiction, depression and suicide, relationshi

America has 2 core problems leading to intense despair: low wages and lack of community. Substance abuse, screen addiction, depression and suicide, relationshiplessness, friendlessness, childlessness, populist fascism, and mass shootings are all signals pointing to a rotten core that doesn't meet basic human needs: connection and affording necessities. Growing up, my grandparents knew most of their neighbors on the block and had them over frequently. I rarely see that anymore as most people treat neighbors and strangers with automatic suspicion if not hostility or contempt. This is a terrible cultural attitude that leads to suffering and loneliness. Interestingly, I hear community is still a thing in a number of non-G20 countries. If anyone wants a nicer country, individuals need to take pro-social chances to encourage real talk about their struggles and good vibes with those around them, starting at home and anyone they meet. Community doesn't cost money, it costs time and emotional reserves. Paying Americans fair wages and not overworking them is the result of unregulated laissez-faire capitalism that balks at any and all suggestions of reform as "communism". Except for China, almost no one else works on a constant crash schedule.