Living on Meds, Vitamin C and Ibogaine: American Precarity

oftwominds ^ | May 14, 2024 | Charles Hughes Smith

[anthropocene_x]

Living on Meds, Vitamin C and Ibogaine is not a high quality of life, and the only thing that has any real meaning is the quality of life of the majority of the citizenry, particularly the bottom 60% who own the fewest income-producing assets (i.e. capital).

If the quality of life of the majority is tanking, all the glowing economic statistics in the world are nothing.

We hear that high-paying jobs are stressful. Yes, they are, but precarity is stressful without the reward of ample compensation. Most people working for a living are stressed out, and so anti-anxiety / anti-depression meds, pain-killers, etc., are part of the self-medication menu, along with supplements (Vitamin C, etc.). But no med or supplement can fix what's actually broken--our economy and society.

Beneath the endlessly hyped "growth" of the economy, precarity and immiseration are the order of the day for the bottom 60% as wages' share of the national income has continued its 50-year decline.

If we can't manage this restoration, then the status quo will collapse anyway. When people can no longer make enough to pay for essentials, history is rather definitive on the outcome.

[anthropocene_x]

The top 5% are the only ones who have benefitted from globalism.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Then why didn't the article say that in the lede? The article was gobbledygook.

[tet68]

All a friend can say is ain’t it a shame...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Beat me to it.

[kosciusko51]

What a long, strange trip it’s been.

[tet68]

I am continually surprised at how long...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Then why didn't the article say that in the lede? The article was gobbledygook.

Well, you know.... A double minded man is unstable in all of his ways.

[Steely Tom]

Ha ha! Very good!

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Whatever became of Sweet Jane, anyway?

[thinden]

bbb

[Celtic Conservative]

It read like somebody learned a new word (precarity) and was just dying to try it out.

CC

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

The title sounds like a Grateful Dead song.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#11: "It read like somebody learned a new word (precarity) and was just dying to try it out."

Exactly! It's a word only of interest to people suffering from mental illness and crazy thoughts.

[af_vet_1981]

Whatever became of Sweet Jane, anyway?

She lost her sparkle. You know she isn't the same.

[aspasia]

She didn’t know what she was headed for.