I would argue that our capitalist system is the root cause of many mental health problems. But it’s easier to make it an individual problem and medicate the population rather than change the system.
Capitalism doesn’t care about your mental health, it just wants you to keep being productive and/or consuming whether you are happy or not. And if everyone started committing suicide and opting out it would be a threat to the system which is why there is only just enough controls put in place to prevent this, but not really enough support to make people well again.
I would argue that our capitalist system is the root cause of many mental health problems. But it’s easier to make it an individual problem and medicate the population rather than change the system.
dont think you’ll find much argument on this one. Dont have to be mentally unwell to see the worlds broken.
It’s only liberal democracies ( which tend to regulated capitalism ) that keep statistics and or openly talk about societal and personal problems , we have no idea what the vast majority of the world suffers.
One of the main problems of democracy is that our vote in federal elections is only one of tens of millions, our power is so diluted as to be near non existent.
Where we can make a difference is at the local level. We can run for local office, vote, start or join groups that actually do things. We are allowed to do these things in a liberal democracy. In many places with less free government initiative and social action will get you jail or even death.
We don’t make the world we are born into, no one does. Nor do we choose our place of birth, our parentage and genetic heritage, our time, our society. We don’t make the day, but we can seize it!
It’s a nice thought but I think it’s part of the facade to placate the population and stop them from revolting . For starters if there’s no democracy at work then there’s no democracy anywhere.
And beyond that we are sadly controlled by banks and large corporations.
You’d be surprised how many things capitalism individualises that would be better handled collectively. Growing food, cooking food, raising kids. These are all things that are better done in a group but we live in systems where you have to do it yourself or one person handles it exclusively
I would argue that our capitalist system is the root cause of many mental health problems. But it’s easier to make it an individual problem and medicate the population rather than change the system.
Capitalism doesn’t care about your mental health, it just wants you to keep being productive and/or consuming whether you are happy or not. And if everyone started committing suicide and opting out it would be a threat to the system which is why there is only just enough controls put in place to prevent this, but not really enough support to make people well again.
dont think you’ll find much argument on this one. Dont have to be mentally unwell to see the worlds broken.
I don’t know about that.
It’s only liberal democracies ( which tend to regulated capitalism ) that keep statistics and or openly talk about societal and personal problems , we have no idea what the vast majority of the world suffers.
To be clear, I meant in our country.
In other countries I’m sure their dictatorships also cause mental health problems as well.
It’s just in our country we are given the illusion of control when in fact we really have very little.
One of the main problems of democracy is that our vote in federal elections is only one of tens of millions, our power is so diluted as to be near non existent.
Where we can make a difference is at the local level. We can run for local office, vote, start or join groups that actually do things. We are allowed to do these things in a liberal democracy. In many places with less free government initiative and social action will get you jail or even death.
We don’t make the world we are born into, no one does. Nor do we choose our place of birth, our parentage and genetic heritage, our time, our society. We don’t make the day, but we can seize it!
It’s a nice thought but I think it’s part of the facade to placate the population and stop them from revolting . For starters if there’s no democracy at work then there’s no democracy anywhere.
And beyond that we are sadly controlled by banks and large corporations.
You’d be surprised how many things capitalism individualises that would be better handled collectively. Growing food, cooking food, raising kids. These are all things that are better done in a group but we live in systems where you have to do it yourself or one person handles it exclusively