General News Suicide Rate Climbs 24% between 1999 and 2014

I'll put my two cents in.

So much goes on in the world. We are working so fast, schedule every hour of our lives. It's one reason why people who live in relaxed and easy going towns/villages tend to have higher life expectancies. The brain can only take so much. I learned that when the brain can't figure out how to handle stress, it begins to think about death.

The worst part is that I can't see ourselves going back, only making it worse on ourselves. As demand for more innovation and need for more money rises, we work ourselves to the bone. More and more people become depressed and stressed, we find less time for happiness. Time is the most important thing we need, not money. And in today's society, time is becoming harder to come by in developed countries.

 

Hmm. It seems humans will inadvertently prevent overpopulation if they go on like this, then... So... Could one say that the industrial revolution led to humankind's extinction?

 

@Cornered: Unless we come up with something good/shape up, then yah, that'll be the deal.

Let's start sharing stuff! And then we automate a lot of our work to take off our workload. Yay.

 

In the UK that isn't the case, as you can see here:



Americans have no paid vacation time, no paid maternity/paternity leave, and their unpaid leave is significantly shorter than in every other developed country, so it's not surprising that you guys are stressed when all you do is work.