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Economic violence gets dumb kids hooked on meth. Warning: this is what Scientologists actually believe.

komali2 3y ago
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/poverty-homelessness-and-social-stigma-make-addiction-more-deadly-202109282602 https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/poverty-homelessness-and... > But in another, critical sense, addiction does discriminate among people, in a way that is unjust and deadly, and in a way that shines a spotlight on tears in the socioeconomic web that is holding our society together. It has long been observed by clinicians that social determinants of health (SDoH) can tip the scales against people, in their already daunting quest to recover from any type of addiction. According to the World Health Organization, SDoH are defined as "the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources at global, national, and local levels." https://stjosephinstitute.com/understanding-the-relationship-between-poverty-and-addiction/ https://stjosephinstitute.com/understanding-the-relationship... > Poverty Increases Addiction Risk Factors As they said, it's not a causal link, but it is correlative.
- jojobas 3y ago
  The conditions of the poorest 10% have vastly improved over the last 100 years, both in relative and absolute terms, and keep improving. Wherever you draw the poverty line, both the percentage and quantity of people below the line keeps diminishing. Poor Americans of today have better healthcare than kings of 300 years ago. Somebody will inevitably be in the bottom 10% of any measure. Your reductionist approach to human agency and freedom of will is appalling.
  - komali2 3y ago
    > Your reductionist approach to human agency and freedom of will is appalling. I don't understand where this is coming from at all. I value human agency and freedom most of all. > Poor Americans of today have better healthcare than kings of 300 years ago. Yes, in the last 300 years we started using soap and also discovered penicillin, this has indeed caused enormous leaps forward in medical care. Did you mean medical access? That is still highly striated based on class, and our royalty class seems to be smaller but far more wealthy now (the difference in net worth between our top .1%, 1%, and 90% is astounding). > The conditions of the poorest 10% have vastly improved over the last 100 years, both in relative and absolute terms, and keep improving. People say this all of the time but outside of soap and penicillin I'm not exactly sure what people are talking about. The poor and starving seem to only exist in greater numbers than ever in history. Perhaps the conditions of the absolute poorest in American society are slightly better than the absolute poorest in American society 200 years ago, but at the cost of creating new poverty classes abroad in colonized places that previously had relatively low technological development but much higher happiness and quality of life than they do now.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/poverty-homelessness-and-social-stigma-make-addiction-more-deadly-202109282602 https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/poverty-homelessness-and... > But in another, critical sense, addiction does discriminate among people, in a way that is unjust and deadly, and in a way that shines a spotlight on tears in the socioeconomic web that is holding our society together. It has long been observed by clinicians that social determinants of health (SDoH) can tip the scales against people, in their already daunting quest to recover from any type of addiction. According to the World Health Organization, SDoH are defined as "the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources at global, national, and local levels." https://stjosephinstitute.com/understanding-the-relationship-between-poverty-and-addiction/ https://stjosephinstitute.com/understanding-the-relationship... > Poverty Increases Addiction Risk Factors As they said, it's not a causal link, but it is correlative.

jojobas 3y ago
The conditions of the poorest 10% have vastly improved over the last 100 years, both in relative and absolute terms, and keep improving. Wherever you draw the poverty line, both the percentage and quantity of people below the line keeps diminishing. Poor Americans of today have better healthcare than kings of 300 years ago. Somebody will inevitably be in the bottom 10% of any measure. Your reductionist approach to human agency and freedom of will is appalling.
- komali2 3y ago
  > Your reductionist approach to human agency and freedom of will is appalling. I don't understand where this is coming from at all. I value human agency and freedom most of all. > Poor Americans of today have better healthcare than kings of 300 years ago. Yes, in the last 300 years we started using soap and also discovered penicillin, this has indeed caused enormous leaps forward in medical care. Did you mean medical access? That is still highly striated based on class, and our royalty class seems to be smaller but far more wealthy now (the difference in net worth between our top .1%, 1%, and 90% is astounding). > The conditions of the poorest 10% have vastly improved over the last 100 years, both in relative and absolute terms, and keep improving. People say this all of the time but outside of soap and penicillin I'm not exactly sure what people are talking about. The poor and starving seem to only exist in greater numbers than ever in history. Perhaps the conditions of the absolute poorest in American society are slightly better than the absolute poorest in American society 200 years ago, but at the cost of creating new poverty classes abroad in colonized places that previously had relatively low technological development but much higher happiness and quality of life than they do now.