A lot of the people I grew up with are dead now. It's not insignificant either, it's like half my friends. :yea:

I'm in my 20s. Drugs, depression, car wrecks (social murder) killed them.

Psychic damage warning for the article…

Some select quotes from a very serious researcher:

Early adults proved especially susceptible to drug overdose deaths as synthetic fentanyl swept the country, but also became increasingly likely to die in car collisions and from digestive diseases and diabetes, and stopped making much progress in death rates from circulatory disease.

What the fuck is the passive voice bullshit? “Early adults are susceptible to fentanyl?” Are they just growing it on their personal fentanyl trees? How are they getting it? “Become increasingly likely to die in car collisions” oh word? Their bodies are just becoming unable to take collisions like their ancestors- absolutely no external factors. “…and diabetes” oh you mean a disease that can be managed if the medication isn’t ransomed so Eli Lilly can turn a profit? “And stopped making much progress in death rates from circulatory disease.” These fucking kids stopped working hard at not dying! Circulatory diseases? Related to air quality, stress, diet, etc? Never heard of root causes - sounds made up.

We don’t know exactly why this is happening. Some changes related to the pandemic seem relatively obvious: employment loss and insecurity that disproportionately impacted younger workers, increased alcohol consumption and drug use, and coincided with high rates of depression that continued to distinctly affect early adults following the peak pandemic. This age group experienced hardships during COVID-19 that are difficult to bounce back from.

No one knows why this is happening

In the 2028 election, millennial and Gen Z voters will account for half of the U.S. electorate. Many of these early adults are disillusioned with a political and economic system that does not provide living wages, stable employment, housing security, or affordable health care. As social mobility in the U.S. has decreased, the prospect of homeownership and marriage has also become unattainable for many early adults, regardless of how hard they work. And now millennial and Gen Z Americans are far more likely to die than their age peers in other rich nations.

Ahhhh we keep extracting wealth from “poor nations” (presumably); but unlike other “rich nations” it somehow disappears before it can get to the working class! Must be a ghost or something!

These economic and health inequities are likely to further increase with cuts to the country’s social safety net, including to programs such as Medicaid, to pay for tax cuts for high earners. Technological advancements may lead to widening income inequality if stable jobs are replaced by A.I. Investing in millennials and Gen Z should be a top policy priority. Politicians looking to win votes would do well to make it a key part of their campaigns.

Actually I can think of a number of other top priorities for politicians to line up behind

The sobering fact is that Americans in early adulthood have fallen far behind their peers in other rich countries—to the point where more of them are losing their lives.

Oh hell yeah tie a personal responsibility bow on it you absolute fucking ghoul

Before 2010, the estimated lifespan for American early adults increased every year. Deaths from HIV and cancer were plummeting. Homicides had fallen dramatically, and fatalities from circulatory disease, a major cause of death at every adult age, were also falling in this age group. But sometime after 2010, for almost every cause of death, this changed

Thanks Obama!

Edit: more seriously, wtf we live in hell

elizabeth wrigley-field

i dont have anything witty to say about this, it's just hilarious that a person with this name exists

Call me a liberal but I need to GTFO here. Porky’s victory in burgerland has been absolute and those pigs are squealing in smug laughter on what they did and how they got away with it.

Even some parts in haven’t been completely ruined yet because of the pigs feast. Quebec seems like the least bad part of both the US and Canada.

I cannot in good conscience raise a family here, and I’m going to have to relive my 20s as a 30-something playing catchup there because here, porky stole my 20s from me.

Least that pig can do is spit out a thank you sometimes for my “noble sacrifice”.

Social murder is just the new Gen Z fad that's sweeping the nation!

People who are 25 to 44 have experienced major turning points in this country’s history: The oldest of them were Reagan babies who launched their careers in the shadow of the Great Recession, and the youngest entered adulthood during a worldwide pandemic

This is the problem with the “ will always go up in the long run” mentality. Even if Wall Street recovers from the crashes, for the people who come into the job market in the middle of the crash, it hurts not just their prospects then but down the line as well. Hits to long term savings, stuck in dead end jobs, employment histories that are less likely to land higher paying jobs. All of which can contribute to these premature deaths that plague burgerland.

Well duh. It’s a system designed to sustain you just enough to draw labor from you; there are bound to be increased margins of error on that “sustaining” as the labor they want to draw gets higher and higher. I know I’ve had severe depression since childhood - but who actually wants to be alive in America? Let alone propagate a new generation? Just for them to go through the same meat grinder?

death cult ahh country

Hey look it's my weekly glimpse of the ghost of my naive optimism that it's possible to turn this death cult masquerading as a country around.

sometime after 2010, for almost every cause of death, this changed.

The last time the federal minimum wage increased to it's current $7.25/hr was in 2009. In 2008 we had a demand for universal healthcare, voted in a guy who campaigned on it, and immediately capitualted to a poison pilled exclusionary anti worker Republican plan.

We never recovered from . Instead of unfucking what he did subsequent admins just doubled down.

Interesting that they only briefly mention auto accidents. It's so dangerous to commute in the US with all the tanks zooming down our stroads

Stress, guns, no healthcare, huge cars

This is a hostile environment. For everyone, regardless of political persuasion. Minorities are actively persecuted. Liberals are assaulted by the news and microaggressions. Chuds see phantom enemies around every corner. Nobody is happy. A country of trapped animals. Now prices are going up like crazy. The restraints bind tighter.

Edit: article lists 2010 as an inflection point. This is also the advent of social media, no coincidence

Kind of infuriating that they name cardiovascular disease and diabetes as factors that are killing us “post”-COVID but don’t make the connection that repeat COVID infections greatly increase our risk of developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

I’m dying just so I can stick it to the boomers.