interesting data: while the rest of the world's <35yo suicide rate is trending down, the US is a rare country in which it is trending up.

most attribute our depression rates to smart phones and social media — yet it can't possibly be that given every other country ALSO has smart phones and social media, right? wdyt?

There's another country where that's happening 

I believe China and US are both, at their opposite end of the spectrum, reaching the limits to growth — not in the original meaning from the Club of Rome report, rather they're starting to experience diminishing returns with some of their policies

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PS it goes without saying that reported suicide numbers for China are unreliable

China's restrictions are taking as much of a toll on the social fabric of the country as freedom is in the US 

Freedom of people to own guns and freedom of corporations to sell guns indiscriminately; freedom of people to not have health insurance, and freedom of companies to charge free market prices for drugs