Cheerleaders for Globalization are all proven failures, but they need to find that out the hard way. The human attrition rate under Globalization exceeds the attrition rate of a normal human life. For a variety of reasons: job insecurity income insecurity, retirement insecurity, and a lack of social safety net. The end result being that people are burning out much faster than they used to...
Aging societies get dumber by the minute - The scope of fantasy necessarily expands as the endgame approaches. Now apparently it takes a Nobel Prize winner to figure out that the status quo is "not working". The problem isn't that American capitalism doesn't work for ALL Americans it's that it only works for .01% of Americans. Of course, they could have just asked anyone who voted for Bernie Sanders...
Surge in ‘deaths of despair’ among whites suggests the loss of ‘a way of life’
For mortality rates to rise instead of fall is extremely rare. It typically takes a war or epidemic for death rates to jump.
Deaton and Case found that these deaths are tied to “deaths of despair” from alcohol, suicide and opioids.
"Mortality rates were rising for working-age white Americans since 1999."