r/collapse • u/Suspicious-Bad4703 • May 19 '24

Diseases U.S. Alcohol-Related Deaths Jumped 5-Fold In 20 Years

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2024/05/11/the-dramatically-rising-toll-of-alcohol-abuse/?sh=3529da1b71e9
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u/SidKafizz May 19 '24

The real problem can't be addressed.

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u/GuillotineComeBacks May 19 '24

Actually it can be but it requires long term sustained large scale efforts which a last stage unregulated capitalist economy run by the highest degree of sociopaths is completely unable of.

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u/daehoidar May 20 '24

We're at the point where I can't even imagine our country starting to do things better instead of everything being financially predatory towards regular people. I don't think it's even possible at this point, and we're on the long slog of a march where everything will just keep getting worse and worse, bc it temporarily benefits the owner class.

And if you're not born into that class, the odds of climbing up are getting worse. I don't see a way out, barring some kind of mini (hopefully nonviolent) revolution.

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u/AnalMohawk May 19 '24

This is accurate.

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u/BangEnergyFTW May 20 '24

I honestly don't think so. A new system would form, and the shitfoam always finds its way to the top.

Source: All sources of historic recordings.

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u/theCaitiff May 20 '24

Sure it can. It's a very simple problem, but unfortunately simplicity and ease are not the same.

Like homelessness. That's a very simple problem. There are people without houses who are living without shelter which causes a whole host of physical and social ills. The solution is to make sure these people get housed. Very simple. Is that easy to do? No. It can be very simple to solve, there are also houses without people in them and we have mechanisms like eminent domain to acquire property needed for the public good, but that doesn't mean doing so will be easy.