>Something is different these days, and it doesn't appear to be a net positive, considering the suicide statistics. It's the worse than the previous gilded age

>Something is different these days, and it doesn't appear to be a net positive, considering the suicide statistics. It's the worse than the previous gilded age inequality causing all this despair that drives people to cope in increasingly self and society damaging ways, surely. Look a little further than porn. Porn (to that level) is a self administered medicine for the sick, not the disease. The disease is despair. As a socialist I'd argue that despair is primarily caused by alienation from our labor and the fruits of that labor. For decades now we've seen X% increases in productivity increase our bosses wages X%, not decrease the amount of work we have to do to earn the same money, or make more money ourselves. We see an increasing share of society confident our jobs provide no value. Porn drugs gambling over eating all the addictions are an attempt to quell despair. And can we really be surprised a world where 3 own more wealth than the bottom 50% combined[1], is abundant in despair? >at one point he did seek mental health treatment, failed to find it, and consoled himself with...porn You say near as much here, to my ears. >low cost of consumption You're really on to something here though. It definitely is the easiest vice to consume. Like imagine if heroin were free in infinite amounts out of your computer I imagine a lot more people would become junkies. >for some people, it really can be as bad as Texas claims. And here too really on to something. This is a bar, if cleared, we deem acceptable and actionable. One we can and do warn all users for , look no further than cigarette packaging. Really interesting stuff here for something I never gave much thought to past blind rejection as ridiculous. [1] In the united states