As Roy Lilley (NHSManagers.net) argues:
'The real growth [in the problems of public health] is in the vast middle ground. Millions of people who are not acutely ill, but not entirely well.
People dealing with anxiety, stress, poor sleep, financial pressure, job insecurity, loneliness.
People functioning, coping, but steadily ground down'.
The increasingly precarious, insecure capitalism our political class has facilitated is taking its toll on our mental health.
Well, its mainly Roy Lilley's point.... but I did agree with him;
I may be missing your point, but if you are saying that its actually capitalism more widely that's the problem & its hierarchical structure is what is really behind worsening mental health, I'd agree up to a point.
As someone who thinks there are varieties of capitalism, I think there are some forms where the balance of between social benefit & harm is not as bad as it is in the UK's current settlement.
any of the Scandinavian countries would be a place to start, and then also, perhaps the Netherlands?
I'll second Professor May here. Scandinavia followed by the Netherlands, and I would add Spain to the list... I'm not sure how _much_ better Spain is, not having poked too closely, but the noises coming from that general direction are good... and the Netherlands, while far from perfect (a year in) are way better than the tales of woe I hear coming from across the Channel.
Sadly the problem with the Japanese system is that actually less than third of the workforce actually benefits - the majority of workers are actually outside the much celebrated employment conditions available to the core workers
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