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None of these reasons explains why teen suicide has doubled in the past 15 years. It's all related. Ever heard the term nothing is more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose? I would not want to be a teen growing up today. Our culture and media worships and has become obsessed with wealth and beauty like never before. 30 years ago people like Kim Kardashian would have been a three times divorced bar slut on welfare, now they're rewarded. An average looking kid used to be able to attract average looking girls, but now even the ugliest of girls posts their ugly fat asses on facebook and you have 50 morons telling them how gorgeous they are giving them a false sense of reality and leaving them to believe they are some kind of beauty queens only deserving the best.
Then you have the fact that hard work used to be admired but now it is looked down upon to the point a decent blue collar job will not even pay the rent. If you are not born into a good situation your only option to look forward to is 100k in student loan debt with no guarantees. Then you have climate change. It's all pretty fucking depressing.
Throw in easy access to guns, the fact that they have grown up seeing over 10,000 murders on TV, video games, rap and you have a recipe for disaster.
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