I don’t understand the point of these posts - at this point we all understand that the economy has changed in the last 60+ years and even changed dramatically in 2000, 2008, and 2019 in rapid succession.
I’ve seen a lot of danger in belaboring these sorts of point, often sowing the seeds of hopelessness, generational dissent (which ultimately isn’t productive), and it never seems to come with a meaningful call to action or what better advice would be.
Which is concerning given the rising rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide attempts in younger generations vs previous.
There was a specific mechanism deployed by the neoliberals in the 1980s that asset stripped the western world and turned citizens into economic units. The slow degradation of public life is contributing to the very issues you mention in relation to mental health. The mental health epidemic is a reflection of the society and the conditions created over the last 40 years. For many people life has become an isolated economic loop, where insidious terms like optimization degrade our quality of life by forcing us to metricize our very existence...
Lol the whole economic model is named after him but easier to blame dems instead of a greedy actor turned republican and we're dealing with that all over again now and look where the economy is. Conservatives are just as guilty of benefitting the wealthy as neolibs.
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u/draconicmonkey 21h ago
I don’t understand the point of these posts - at this point we all understand that the economy has changed in the last 60+ years and even changed dramatically in 2000, 2008, and 2019 in rapid succession.
I’ve seen a lot of danger in belaboring these sorts of point, often sowing the seeds of hopelessness, generational dissent (which ultimately isn’t productive), and it never seems to come with a meaningful call to action or what better advice would be.
Which is concerning given the rising rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide attempts in younger generations vs previous.