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ansible

(1,718 posts) Mon May 17, 2021, 08:55 PM May 2021

Anyone notice how so many people are on drugs now?

Maybe I'm just in a really poor area but jesus christ, almost everyone I know and see around here are on some sort of drugs now. Either legal stuff or not-so-legal, they're all trying to cope with how shitty this world is.

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Anyone notice how so many people are on drugs now? (Original Post) ansible May 2021 OP

There is a book (which I have not read, but heard of through reviews/interviews) which may RockRaven May 2021 #1

Hmm! Whadya know? I hadn't been paying attention since I've been doing drugs. marble falls May 2021 #2

RockRaven

(14,907 posts)

1. There is a book (which I have not read, but heard of through reviews/interviews) which may

Reply to ansible (Original post)

Mon May 17, 2021, 09:32 PM

May 2021

be relevant or may interest you. It's called "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism" by Anne Case and Angus Deaton.

There are reviews in WaPo and the New Yorker easily found via Google.

It was written pre-COVID, published just as the pandemic started.

marble falls

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2. Hmm! Whadya know? I hadn't been paying attention since I've been doing drugs.

Reply to ansible (Original post)

Mon May 17, 2021, 09:53 PM

May 2021

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