| > I'm not sure how you got it that violence and suicide is all because of socioeconomic inequality. Because people generally don't kill themselves or others for shits and giggles. > Suicide is a direct function of depressive issues Which largely go unnoticed, undiagnosed, and untreated until it's too late, in no small part due to the absolute shitshow that is mental healthcare access here in the US. > and circumstances that peaks on you at the same time you get that one too many "it's gonna be a bad day" piece of news. For large swaths of the American population, those pieces of bad news skew heavily toward socioeconomic circumstances. Job loss, debt (incl. medical debt), homelessness, being convicted of crimes because you couldn't afford any better than an already-far-overworked public defender... the list goes on. Even for the things outside that list, they become a lot easier to bear when you can actually afford some degree of treatment. > giving someone with depression all kinds government reform will do exactly nothing to cure that depression It will do everything to solve it in the vast majority of cases, and in the remainder of cases will at least prevent "I can't afford it" from being an excuse to get help. > If you made everyone a millionaire today, there'd still be violence crime There would be a hell of a lot less of it. > The best way to cure a lot of the violence is for people to leave each other alone and show some decency to each other. Which is a lot easier to do when you don't have to resort to crime for basic survival. |