>If the first half of your statement is true, then why do the billions of people subsisting on a few dollars a day around the world do not have society-wide pro

>If the first half of your statement is true, then why do the billions of people subsisting on a few dollars a day around the world do not have society-wide problems with drug abuse and mental illness? They don't live in societies with extreme inequality and precarity. Under capitalism, inequality is the problem, not merely poverty.