The system is failing even for those well positioned to ride the success of (but not hold stake in) the general market. The first upper-middle class runners are coming across the line to find nothing there. How does that effect the tipping point? Is this a marker of a Late Stage?

Does anyone even subscribe to the American Dream anymore? Maybe there isn’t a big pack running behind these first place white men to find a cliff at the finish line.

Is it the last remnants of an experiment burning out, or is it just the first car to crest the rollercoaster?

Or is the suicide stat meaningless and the power structure still favors inherited white male privilege so significantly that it’s dumb to grasp at minor perceived cracks forming? If this then what’s the stat about?

  • acealeam [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Is this about the paradox where black Americans have less mental health disorders despite having worse physical health, more stress and worse socioeconomic status?

    there are a few theories, such as black people having more buffers against mental health such as higher self esteem and religiosity as well as generally better social support systems, but this is not supported by data. some people think the tests may not be accurate due to a cultural bias in diagnostics, ie, the same diagnostic interview might apply to white people but not to black people, but afaik this has some evidence but not enough to explain the paradox. one of the more promising theories is that black folk tend to have worse health behaviors than white folks. they are more likely to drink as a coping mechanism for instance, trading possible mentall illness for worse physical health. this one is supposed to be the most promising, with some studies supporting this one.

    thats what i learned in college