Baby boomers are killing themselves at an alarming rate, raising question: Why?

[Warpy]

104. People desperately need to develop interests and friends outside work

which is getting harder and harder to do as they've changed the nature of work to "in the office 60 hours a week, on call the rest of the time." I think these years will be looked back on in a more enlightened culture as the absolute nadir of labor, worse than the age of the Robber Barons because at least those underpaid workers got to go home without the fear of having some asshole disturb them about work in their down time.

Something has got to give and it will give, probably violently, before any of this improves.

Until then, people will blame themselves for being exploited in the workplace, underpaid, and with nothing but a bleak future of slow starvation to look forward to when some bean counter throws them out of work and hires a fresh faced kid to pay even less for a training period that will somehow never end. As they blame themselves for bad government policy of depressing wages and killing the future, they will have no recourse except to end it, whether by gun, rope, or cop chase.

I've been very, very close in the last few years.