-income inequality is higher but so is standard of living. Moreover, suicidality is pretty strongly inversely correlated with poverty and privilege. If the hypothesis is that people are killing themselves because "wah someone has more numbers than me" the argument crumbles immediately.
-most jobs have always been shit and meaningless. Nothing new here expect maybe a generation that was told they were special when they are not.
- "2 or 3 jobs" but how many hours? Also, starvation wages? Come on. Nobody in America with a job is poor enough to be hungry. To suggest starvation wage in America devalues actual food scarcity globally. Also, again, poverty and suicidality are inversely correlated
- you can thank federally guaranteed student loans and useless majors for driving up the cost and driving down the value of college. Still, having 40k-200k of loans contributing to suicidality... I'd like to see the study. Could be right.
- guaranteed parental leave would help reduce suicides? I mean, we didn't have that in the past. So why does the status quo cause higher suicide rates?
- the medical services coverage is a strange argument with respect to suicidality. We understand and treat depression way better than we did 50 years ago, so why is it worse now? Plentiful mental health clinics even operate on a "pay what you can" model
-paid vacation, see paid parental leave
- why wasn't suicide higher when we worked more hours in the past? In the last 50 years as hours worked hasn't really changed, why is suicidality up now and not then?
- I mean... Leisure time is still a good 6 hours a workday plus weekends and hasn't really gone down. Why don't people who work more for less commit suicide more often?
- this last one doesn't even deserve a response.
Please go on. Maybe you'll get a single reason if you do.