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by Someone 2223 days ago
Can you give an example of something that’s hugely different? Reading https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/california-cor... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269838, I don’t see huge ones.

I would think the main difference in effect on suicide rates (if any) is in the system of government benefits. It’s less stressful to lose your job in the Netherlands than in the USA.

I think it also is telling that the governor of one of the richest parts of one of the richest countries in the world deemed it necessary to say “garbage collection will continue.”