Oh, come on! It only has important implications for policymakers if they want to stop them:
The lost jobs, sinking home values and stock market free-fall of the Great Recession led to a significant rise in suicides, according to a new study.
At least 10,000 more Americans and Europeans took their own lives from 2007 to 2010 than during the good economic times of the previous few years, the study found.
“It’s a fairly large and substantial increase over what we would have expected,” said Aaron Reeves, a sociologist and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford in England, who helped lead the research. “There are, broadly speaking, large mental health implications of the economic crisis that are still being felt by many people.”
Suicide rates didn’t climb evenly. In Sweden and Austria, rates remained flat during the Great Recession, although those nations’ economies struggled as much as others did – suggesting that the link between recession and suicide is not inevitable, said David Stuckler, a professor and health economist at Oxford and the paper’s senior author.
“These economic suicides are avoidable,” he said.
Sweden had strong support for people who lost their jobs or were struggling financially, Stuckler said.
This finding has important implications for policymakers, said Abdulrahman El-Sayed, a doctor and assistant professor of epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York City.
So when the oligarchy (1%) forces the 99% to practice austerity then the suicide rate goes up? As the 1% de-funded social programs meant to “support people who lost their jobs or were struggling financially” the suicide rate went up? The oligarchy didn’t have a clue that their “free-market” policies would lead to greater poverty and increasing suicides? Just how stupid are these rich fucks anyway? Or are they impoverishing and killing us intentionally?
Not intentional and not stupid, they just don’t care. It’s not their problem and not their responsiblity. They truly believe they are entitled and if you aren’t in the 1% it’s because you’re stupid and lazy. Like so many other social problems that could be alleviated, THEY DON’T CARE.
They may not care today, but they will care very shortly.