There’s Something Very Dark Happening to Millennials and Gen Z Adults | We’re mortality experts. There are a few things that could be happening here.

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1. The article contains a few interesting sentences:

   – > But our country seems to be, at a deeper level, a deadly place to live.
   – > And this leaves them 2.6 times as likely to die as early adults in other rich countries. Amid declining economic prospects and future optimism among younger American adults, perhaps no statistic more starkly captures the disadvantage of entering adulthood in the U.S. today.

   It’s hilarious that this article doesn’t mention capitalism once.

   [Condition of the Working Class in England, by Engels, 1845](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/ch07.htm)

   > When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society [[1]](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/ch07.htm#1) places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains. I have now to prove that society in England daily and hourly commits what the working-men’s organs, with perfect correctness, characterise as social murder, that it has placed the workers under conditions in which they can neither retain health nor live long; that it undermines the vital force of these workers gradually, little by little, and so hurries them to the grave before their time. I have further to prove that society knows how injurious such conditions are to the health and the life of the workers, and yet does nothing to improve these conditions. That it knows the consequences of its deeds; that its act is, therefore, not mere manslaughter, but murder, I shall have proved, when I cite official documents, reports of Parliament and of the Government, in substantiation of my charge.

   [Social murder – Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder#cite_note-Engels18452-1)

   > **Social murder** ([German](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language “German language”): _sozialer Mord_) is a concept used to describe an unnatural death that is believed to occur due to social, political, or economic [oppression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppression “Oppression”), instead of direct [violence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence “Violence”). Originally coined in 1845 by German philosopher [Friedrich Engels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Engels “Friedrich Engels”), it has since been used by [left-wing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing “Left-wing”) politicians, journalists, and activists to describe deaths attributed to larger [social forces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_influence “Social influence”).

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