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Deaths of despair / Effective altruism (Angus Deaton)

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The Indirect Cause of the Unwinding Catastrophe

As the labor market disintegrated, lots of other bad things happened. So unions went away. Social structures begin to fall apart. People don't go to church. Their marriages are coming apart. And what's more is the huge rise in pain, all sorts of pain. The proximate cause would be I don't have any friends anymore.

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