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Oxy, Xbox, Prison: 3 Reasons Young Men Aren’t Working In America
There's been no shortage of discussion over the past several years with regard to the labor force participation rate. I'm absolutely not interested in getting into a high level debate about that on Tuesday and I'll bet you aren't either (suffice to say the obvious "answer" to the "question" is: demographics).
But what I am interested in talking about is this chart or actually, why this chart looks like it does:
So it's not "news" that men have not returned to the labor force and there have b
So basically they listened to the new Theory song RX?
Start checking on what the docs prescribe! The beginners get the Vicodin or Percodan from mom/dad’s medicine cabinet! Mom/dad got it from the doctor for some minor ache – back ache, dental ache, minor sprain, etc. – way too easy to get. Way too many years of ignoring how they were pushing pills and addicting patients. So the teen grew up with shitty grades and shitty attitudes and mom/dad did not even notice the missing pills. Now all grown up and still have that shitty problem. duh. And I graduated from high school 1965 and it was happening way back then! My 68 yr old friend went to doctor 2 weeks ago – ingrown toenail; common with old people! Came home with script for pain pills. duh.
Capitalism at its worse and just another example of why government must place its thumb on the free market. I offer the following, from The New Yorker, as an interesting read:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain
But 600,000,000 oxy pills prescribed in West Virginia alone shouts of something more than just pain management. The pharma and distribution companies should be held legally accountable and considerable prison time (Chapo-time if you like) should be handed out. What’s the odds of that happening?
Direct-to-Consumer advertising by non-OTC drug companies started the turbo on this problem.
Thank you Libertrian’s, the free market really works!
Now try and fix it.
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