Scientists in 2026: “let’s see how long we can hold onto this extremely angry piece of energy that is absolutely incompatible with our known existence and stability by every metric up until now. It’s probably gonna work, it might not go boom.”
Well at least these generations will have the excuse of real scarcity and hoarding by the ultra wealthy that are armed with ai murderbots. That’s fun.
This might be true if the investment in society, infrastructure and lower classes always had been the same or same direction. After wwii it changed drastically and in favor of the working class and those in need, and society benefited greatly from it, there’s datapoints to show this to be true. Then there was a backlash from the wealthy to all the civil rights movements, labor movements and those investments were pulled back strategically. This is new, because it isn’t a continual trend over time, but that pull back has continued from the 1970s to today’s date.
Eh, Gen-z who are chuds do of course hold responsibility for their own actions, but they were started down the path by really hard to overcome disadvantages previous generations had where family was present to socialize them, teach them how to treat others, previous generations had third spaces to socialize with peers to learn how not to be asshats, to learn what behaviors wouldn’t be tolerated, and the silent generation, boomers, and now gen-x (my gen) ARE guilty of one by one letting or actively helping all the structures that made socialization and generationally passed down behavioral guidance possible go away or be stripped by stopping the flow of corporate gains to the lower and middle classes, forcing families to all work, and sometimes all work multiple jobs, they voted against social programs, against traditional funding that built transportation systems, parks, and other third spaces by reducing taxation on the wealthy in the name of lowering taxes and the Ayn Rand myth of extreme self reliance.
When you stop investing in society, you stop getting the benefits of a society, and the first to go is the social contract, where people treat each other with some level of respect due to acknowledgement of said social contract, for the most part.
Maybe discussing science papers isn’t for you, if you can’t understand basic methodology language and practices.
Someone doesn’t know how science is actually done. It’s a series of surveys over 35 years using sample sizes between 1,500 people and 18,693 individuals, from the limited methodology publications I read through in the last 15 minutes. That’s far more than is required to be considered trustworthy, reliable, and accurate as long as their other methods were sound, which they appear to be.
The study uses binary and ordinal logistic regression models that appear to be highly reliable with large sample sizes, and their accuracy appear reliable based on the study meeting standard core statistical assumptions and they seem to avoid rare-outcome traps.
This is a sound study, and you should probably look into statistical modeling in producing such studies before using language you’ve likely read in comments sections that like to dismiss studies because they don’t like the results or findings for political or personal reasons.
Their methodology:
Damnit, I’m gonna have to rename A-a-Ron because now I know he’s not getting the joke every time he’s naughty
Yep, that’s why I specified the US, I did actually read the article before commenting. I think it’s worth mentioning because that’s a hot topic presently and it’s always good to remind people to get checked if they can.
In the US, 92 percent of adults are actively avoiding going to the doctor because they can’t even afford copays if they have insurance, never mind those without, so I’m assuming the number is much higher here.
Yeah those doctors were raised by dismissive boomer and silent generation parents and taught by the same generations at med school. They’re largely genx (my gen so I’m very familiar with them and our attitudes), genx has largely given up and was already the grunge type gen that didn’t believe anyone about anything to start with. Add on top of that realizing as an older adult that everyone is an idiot, especially the narcissistic doctors you thought had everything under control, and they’re going to just assume everyone doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
We really should focus on training doctors to have amazing compassion, proper bedside manners, and make sure their mentors have those as well.
And as the article says, we need to address insurance problems or the issue of people having little to no access to healthcare to seek answers, and that means healthcare for all, at no out of pocket costs at the time of visits. If it’s cost prohibitive to seek answers, they won’t be sought by patients or doctors as much. As needed. And the people who run for profit insurance companies should have to pay real prices for avoidable deaths they cause in the name of denying coverage to increase profits - which likely means doing away with for profit healthcare altogether.