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as long as they keep their social welfare systems intact. Welfare here being well-being, not government giveaways, since people in those countries are well aware of how those systems are paid for.

We had few social welfare policies in place before the Reagan Revolution and now we have next to none since most weren't indexed to inflation and don't kick in even for the utterly indigent. We have homelessness and the knowledge that even people who are doing well are one accident of illness or loss of income away from joining them.

We're on our own, socialist paradise for the wealthy and dog-eat-dog capitalism for the rest of us and seeing so many of us break under the strain is no mystery.

As long as we're a country that prides itself on being rich while throwing its citizens out onto the pavement like garbage, we're going to see one hell of a lot of suicides.