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No, it’s more about pervasive lack of well being induced more lack of well being, including degraded health. It discusses poverty more, because it’s maybe a mor

No, it’s more about pervasive lack of well being induced more lack of well being, including degraded health. It discusses poverty more, because it’s maybe a more encompassing topic and easier to identify, but they also mention abuse induced disorders and unwellness in general inducing SLS. I don’t think the wealthy or whatever are exempt from SLS, but you do tend to find more abuse and other factors in communities crushed by poverty. But overall it reads to me as SLS is essentially “things are so bad they compound on each other, further perpetuating a downward trend in quality of life, affecting everything around them including their health.” I don’t think there was an implication this is unique to the UK, but it is interesting to note even with the NHS there’s a sense they don’t have the resources to address the scale of the problems they’re seeing. Basic income might help, but it also might just mean a marginal increase in life comforts to prevent the most extreme poverty but not enough to move the needle in something like this. At its core it sounds like an issue of lack of education, opportunity, hope, and mental health.

noirbot 3y ago
I think it's also pointing to something more than just poverty - it's when you're in a situation where potentially everyone you know is in poverty. You're not even passing someone on the street who looks middle-class, let alone rich. Even if you suddenly had millions of dollars, there would be no where to spend it. If you opened a business you would have trouble finding customers or skilled employees. The first thing you would do is just move somewhere else. When you're somewhere that's more mixed by class, it's maybe easier to see your way back out of poverty in a way that you can't when you're never seeing anything else.

noirbot 3y ago

I think it's also pointing to something more than just poverty - it's when you're in a situation where potentially everyone you know is in poverty. You're not even passing someone on the street who looks middle-class, let alone rich. Even if you suddenly had millions of dollars, there would be no where to spend it. If you opened a business you would have trouble finding customers or skilled employees. The first thing you would do is just move somewhere else. When you're somewhere that's more mixed by class, it's maybe easier to see your way back out of poverty in a way that you can't when you're never seeing anything else.