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jordandeang··on Life expectancy in the U.S. is declining for middle-aged people of all groups
https://www.newamerica.org/millennials/reports/emerging-mill... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/millennials-have-just-3-of-us-w... https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...

https://twitter.com/berniesanders/status/1121058539634593794

To approach these systemic issues as just the individual faults of young people is to essentially accept that these problems will never get better. That's the centrist boomer motto.

jordandeang··on Life expectancy in the U.S. is declining for middle-aged people of all groups
This isn't just another cyclical generational war. Younger generations today are uniquely economically worse off than the older generations were at the same age. If that's the case in 30-40 years once economic and governing power has transferred to today's younger generations, then the blame would be well deserved.
jordandeang··on Life expectancy in the U.S. is declining for middle-aged people of all groups
We have other developed countries we can compare to. Also, you can consider the lack of care as a smaller part of the general economic anxiety that plagues the areas described in the article.
jordandeang··on Life expectancy in the U.S. is declining for middle-aged people of all groups
Your metaphor is missing the older person building the house on a the rotting foundation and the younger person not having another house to go to.
jordandeang··on Life expectancy in the U.S. is declining for middle-aged people of all groups
The universal health care proposals by Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal include mental health and substance abuse treatment services.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/112... https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1384...

jordandeang··on Acid test: on drugs and science fiction (2017)
> LSD primarily teaches you to see things from multiple perspectives.

Hard agree. The least anyone can take out of it is a new perspective which does not come often to many.

jordandeang··on The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration
I was thinking the same thing.

Based on the image of the Sociometric badge and how it lays on your chest, it seems like this condition would miss a large portion of the communication that an open office incentivizes including talking over your computers, turning your head to the side and speaking, and speaking without being face to face.

EDIT: grammar