https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-20/something-isnt-right-greatest-economy-ever-american-suicide-rates-hit-wwii-levels
This I find perplexing.
Namelus mentioned in another thread about the cubical being a torture device, which I can agree with first hand experience.
But we are THE First World Country. Everyone wants to be like us.
Why?
There are so many people who are depressed or have anxiety that anti-depressants are showing up in our water ways and in the brains of fish in those water ways (note: A sizeable portion of those meds is excreted out via urine).
While I was in Afghanistan, I noted how much more they had a sense of community. Connections to other people. Their holidays seemed so much more cheerful.
How many of us dread a holiday dinner with the “family?”
Granted I dread seeing my FIL, he is a world class jerk.