Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers
Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers
With young people like college student Ben Salas dying, families and experts are searching for answers.
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... No clear answers?
I'm 35. I make enough to pay bills but a home is still out of reach for me and my gf, together we pull about 175k
When I was 21, expensive drafts were $5/16oz. Cheap ones were $1. Rent was ~$750/mo, utils and stuff brought you close to $1000. I worked 40 hrs a week in a kitchen making $15/hr. I got free food the burritos there were $9.99, fair at the time.
Today, someone makes the same wage, gets 12 hrs a week, the food isn't free when you work there a burrito is $17.99, and the apt I was in is $1750/mo
I wanted to die plenty in my 20s. I can only imagine the bleak hellhole they see and exist in.
...the clear answer is more opportunity, more money, more education, less burdens.
What the fuck happened? Like it was bad for me and my friends. Our parents pitied us. But now a draft beer is line $11 for 10 oz. A cheap McDonald's order is $15.
It's clickbait. There was an article like this a while ago about teens and suicide and they were like, "we have no idea why this is happening!", even though for years people were saying social media was harming teens.
Social media is not the cause. There are so many problems that young people are helpless to do anything about. Congress's desire to restrict and censor internet access for minors has to be more impactful than social media itself.
I guess we should say that it's an "intensifier". If you get bullied at school, it no longer stays at school. If there's gossip or someone does something embarrassing it's no longer forgotten, but quickly plastered all over the Internet. I graduated high school in 2004, so I didn't have to deal with any of this.
even though for years people were saying social media was harming teens.
And that article, had you bother to read it, pointed out that there was plenty of conflicting evidence as to whether social media was the cause, and warned that by mindlessly blaming social media because it is easy might lead us to overlook the real culprit.
But good on you for demonstrating it's point.
This comment is clickbait if you think social media is only bad for teens
It definitely has negative effects for everyone, but teens/tweens are the most susceptible to it.
Dude I earn a fraction of that a year and live happily and can invest in my future lol. Skill issue
Where do you live?
South america
COL is a factor bro
If $175k/year isn't enough for you, you are part of the problem.
So many people work harder for so much less, but you think you deserve more before them.
Just like how people richer than you operate.
Enough for what? They clearly stated that home ownership is out of reach for them.
Rest of their comparison is about things now vs things 10 years back and how it's worse for someone in their teens and 20s.
Learn to read.
Enough to stop you from complaining you don't have enough.
Their comparison is irrelevant.
You're just upset I'm criticizing people with too much wealth.
No. I'm annoyed because you can't read.
Lol, ok.
Is a home not under the constant annual threat of becoming unaffordable (I'm talking about renting, since you since seem to have reading comprehension difficulties) "too much" for someone to expect to achieve?
That all depends on where you live
He's complaining that his standard of living has decreased...
Jesus wept, if I earned HALF that I'd be very comfortable for the rest of my life. That's an insane income.
Imagine earning almost two hundred grand a year as a family and then suggesting it's a struggle. That's wild.
I mean sure, if you live in a gated wealthy community and only buy the finest things, and have very high wealthy standards, then I imagine that would seem like pocket change.
But 14,500 dollaroos a MONTH? That's enough to support multiple families. That's equivalent to SIX adults working a full time minimum wage job. SIX!
Imagine being two people, bringing in the wage of six people, and suggesting it's a tough life. I would kill to be in that highly privileged position haha.
I got like $60k a year as a programmer, and spun up my own company after a year of that. Like, how are you not able to save for a house / pay off a mortgage on 175k a year.
I struggled at $15 an hour living in a low cost area.
When rent is $2k a month, plus food and utilities, that money goes quiiiick