wonp8 MIKEMAZZONE READS THE WAR ON NORMAL PEOPLE BY ANDREW YANG PART 8

https://bittubers.com/playlist/1006/7 By unlike zone and I'm reading the war on normal people by Andrew Yang of entrepreneurship is defined as pursuing an opportunity without regard for resources currently under your control every parent's pursues the best possible opportunities for his or her child fifth while climbing over obstacles and limitations each day to Inouye all parents are entrepreneurs my mind almost broke trying to build venture for America and raise children and stay married simultaneously despite my wife doing most of the hardest work you never rest basically being a parent is a ton of freaking work and doing it alone seems inconceivable a difficult is what we're setting up more and more people most of them women and to face a loan at a time when raising in educating children and forming our human capital is one of the utmost importance were heading in the other direction 13 in the permanent shadow class with displacement looks like in 2015 husband and wife economic researchers and case ANS India cities and from that mortality rates have increased sharply in steadily for middle aged white Americans after 1999 going up 0.5% per year the figure that the must have made a mistake is more a less unheard of in developed countries who have a life expectancy go down for any group for more than a momentary blip said Deaton we thought and must be wrong we just couldn't believe that this could've happened or that even had someone else must have already noticed to use it turns out yes it had happened in yes no one had noticed his case in deacon found suicides were way up overdoses from prescription drugs were much higher alcoholic liver disease was commonplace historically African Americans have had higher mortality rates in shorter life expectancy than whites fifth now whites with a high school degree or less have the same mortality rates as African Americans with the same levels of education who was behind the disturbing trends case and eaten point the finger at jobs DS and explained jobs are slowly crumbled away and many more men are fun finding themselves in a much more hostile labor market with lower wages lower quality and less permanent jobs this made it harder for them to get married and they don't get to know their own kids is a lot of social dysfunction building up over time there's a sense that these people have lost the sense of status and belonging these are classic preconditions for suicide be noted that the higher mortality rates in deaths and of despair apply equally to middle age men and women in their study though many experience these at much higher rates charts many of the deaths are from opiates overdoses approximately 59,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2016 up 19% from their then record 52,404 reported in 2015 were the first time drug overdoses have surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of accidental death in the United States coroner's offices in Ohio have reported being overwhelmed as the number of overdose victims has tripled in two years in some areas being now call nearly nearby funeral homes for help with storage the five states with the highest rates of death links to drug overdoses in 2016 were West Virginia New Hampshire Kentucky Ohio and rhode island's over two million Americans are estimated to be dependent on Obie Owens and an additional 95,000,000 use prescription painkillers in the past year according to the latest governments reports more than used to Mako in 12 states there are more opioid prescriptions and then there are people addiction is so widespread that in Cincinnati hospitals now require universal drug testing for pregnant mothers because 5.4% of mothers had a positive drug test in past years old the laser what we worry about most explained Dr. Scott Wechsel blacks , neonatologist spitz Cincinnati children's hospital preparing a dual institutes people often think of opioid addiction as a resonating with prescription painkiller use oxycontin hit the market in 1996 is a wonder drug in Purdue Pharma which was fined $635,000,000 in 200074 misbranding the drug and downplaying the possibility of addiction sold $1.1 billion worth of painkillers in 2000 as some declined to a staggering three billion dollars in net 2010 the company spends $200,000,000 in marketing in 2001 alone including hiring 671 sales reps who receives success bonuses of up to almost 1/4 million dollars for hitting sales goals in army of drug dealers in suits marketed addicted hope yours to doctors getting paid hundreds of thousands to do its regarding oxycontin CDC director talked and Dr. Tom Friedman noted that's we know of no other medication routinely use forry none fatal condition that kills patients so frequently easy the study showed that one out of every 550 patients started on opioid therapy died of opioid related causes a median of 2.6 years after their first opioid prescription know many opioid you did Sears have graduated to heroin one common pattern of addiction is that people use prescription painkillers for pain relief or recreationally as a party drug and the grind of pills and sniff them for a euphoric high that lasts four HRS then made later switched to heroin which opioid users cited as more easily obtainable a study conducted by the New England and journal of medicine so that 66% of those surveyed switch to other opioid is after using oxycontin the majority of heroin users used to be men however because women are prescribed opioid set higher rates today the gender balance of heroin users is about 5050 90% of heroin users are whites it's we're seeing an unbelievably sad and extensive heroin epidemic and there is no end in sight says dale cicerone a medical Dr. At the University of California at San Francisco who studies the heroine markets we are not in 2017 anywhere close to the top of this thing there when has a life force of its own cartels have begun to sell heroin laced with Fenton hill a synthetic opioid that increases both the high and the addition level and is cheaper than heroin in constant in a tail and elephant tranquilizer so powerful that simply touching it can cause an overdose when it is absorbed through the skin and drug companies and Medical System that produced hundreds of thousands of Obie when addicts were now here when users buying from dealers heroin dealers have become ubiquitous to Ohio police say they've seen dealers takes their customers to advertise 241 Sunday specials and offer free samples setup on car hoods in a local park some dealers have scheduled business HRS others throw testers wrapped in paper slips printed with their phone number into passing cars hoping to book new business to detective Brandon Conley after arresting a low level dealer in Ohio everybody and their moms sells drugs these days there's always somebody right there to pick back up many dealers are addicted are addicts themselves trying to keep a steady supply is a bee Lloyd played will be with us for years in part because treatment is so difficult heroin in OB Lines are notoriously difficult addictions to break withdrawal symptoms include cravings nausea vomiting depression and anxiety insomnia and fever as people relax several times on their way to recovery and many are forced to use opiates substitutes like methadone to manage their addiction only about 10% of people that had a drug abuse disorder received appropriate treatment according to a 2014 study most people can't break this habit on their own and require extended rehabilitation jellies and sell a Dr. and professor who was treated heroin users for years said SP from long experience rice aid if you have the users can simply take a medication and embark on a path to recovery they often requires a healthy dose of the nine paternalism and in some cases involuntary care your civil commitments treatment centers cause between $12,000 and $60,000 for 30 to 90 day inpatient care without patients 30 day programs starting around $5000 with no assurance of success hand in hand with a spike in suicides and addiction is been the incredible increase in applications to Social Security disability programs rose nine million working age Americans receive disability benefits this more than the entire population of New Jersey or Virginia the percentage of working age Americans who received a disability benefits was 5.2% in 2017 up from only 2.5% in 1980 his ability applications started searching in 2000 for the same years that manufacturing employment started to plummets the average benefit size and June 2017 was $1172 per month and a total cost of about $143,000,000,000 per year the age of the disabled has gone down in 201450 percent of men in 16.2% of women in their thirties or early forties were on disability up from 6.6%6.4% in the 1960s rates of disability track to areas of joblessness forming disability belts in Appalachia the deep south and other regions in a couple of counties in Virginia for the 20% of working adults ages 18 for 64 are now receiving disability benefits was for Jon Ya Alabama Arkansas Kentucky and Mississippi are the top five states for disability beneficiaries with 7.928.9% of the workforce receiving income of replacements disability payments received by beneficiaries in these five states exceed one billion dollars per month in the states is ability benefits are so widespread that the date that checks arrive is like a monthly holiday it's it's said one was for Jin Yan who preceded who process disability claims there a vital part of our economy a lot of people depend on them to survive on the day it's checks arrive you avoid the pharmacy you avoid Wal-Mart you avoid you know restaurant's everybody's receive their benefits let's go shopping some of the increasing rates of disability reflect an aging population in changing demographics and but many of them represent what one expert called economic disability the biggest growth categories of disability our mental disorders and Muskie musculoskeletal and connective tissue which together and now comprise about 50% of disability claims nearly double what they were 20 years ago these diagnoses are also the hardest to independently verified for a Dr. the number of people who applied for disability benefits and 2014 was 2,485,077 on any given business day there are 9500 applicants there are 1500 disability judges around this country who administer the decisions often without feeling the claimants without seeing the claimants are waiting period to get a hearing is now more than 18 months in most states to apply for disability applicants must gather evidence from medical professionals the compile nodes from doctors send in the information and wait to hear back no lawyer representing the government cross examines them no government Dr. Examines them about 40% of claims are ultimately approved either initially or on appeal the lifetime value of a disability award is about $300,000 for the average recipients because the stakes are so high representing Clemens has become a big business law firms regularly advertise for clients on late night television to help them navigate the process in collective he did agree a percentage of the awarded 80% of repeating claimants are represented by counsel up from less than 20% in the 1970s one law firm generated $78,000,000 in revenue in one year alone from representing disability claimants after someone is on disability there's a massive disincentive to work because if you work in show that you're able bodied you lose benefits as result for chalet no one recovers from disability insurer rate nationally is less than 1% digital tour asserts that Social Security disability insurance today the century serves as unemployment insurance around the country is not designed for this but that's what it is for hundreds of thousands of Americans one judge would ministers disability decisions said that if the American public knew what was going on in our system half would be outraged in the other half would apply for benefits they spoke to a friend Tony about his experience applying for disability he and I grew up together please dungeons and dragons on the same streets Tony is a house painter who worked previously as a musician in some technician he was married briefly what is now divorced to a finished his college degree of few years ago for fifth at a public university us most of his childhood without Health Insurance is father was a contractor and self employed in 2011 he moved to Western Massachusetts in received Health Insurance for the first time it was free under Bromley care because he was considered low income a couple years ago after not being able to work for a few months due to health problems jury was told by his therapist we should try to get disability to Rea first thought that he wouldn't qualify because is injuries were mostly rain related multiple traumatic brain injuries from childhood accidents of falling concrete when he was nine and it crashed scooter when he was 11 and concussions from playing high school football the two impaired cognition and mood swings he also suffer from chronic fatigue and muscle pain depression in chronic Lyme disease to retard the therapists advice and went on the social security disability insurance as SBI website to apply the cemented notes from his therapist nurse prescriber supervising psychiatrist primary care Physician a specialist in holistic medicine and a specialist in infectious disease and a lot of stuff that had builds up in my body over yet the years as sometimes state that if I'd had proper treatment as a kid I might not be disabled today to resubmitted the paperwork in March 2016 and was certified that he was denied his he was denied benefits five months later about 75% of initial claims captain I'd nationally he then went online and found a local Atty. was specializes in his ability appeals lawyer work through the appeals process on tony's behalf two months later Tony was approved and began receiving approximately $1200 a month after the lawyer took over and that wasn't the money showed up in my account the lawyer collected about $2700 for handling the appeal 25% of a disability payments there were racial active two when Tony was deemed and disabled Tony is currently on disability and his first review will be after two years they got for disability is not for disability I would have worked myself to death and I'd tony's 42 the ball and tears at a local church I live in Western Massachusetts which is not sick someplace that people think of as struggling but is crazy how many people coming to church were living in tents and on the streets people just do what they have to do to get by and personally very glad the disability was there for Tony for him and disability was literally a slot a lifesaver J.D. Vance woods of how the people in Ohio became angry that they were working hard and scraping by while others were doing nothing and living off of government checks the sites this resentment force government handouts as an explanation for why regions like Ohio have become a become a more republican than numbers have grown to a point where more Americans are currently on disability them work in construction in 201356.5 percent of prime age men 25 to 54 were not in the workforce reported receiving disability payments though the numbers have stabilized as more people in this age group have moved into Social Security retirement they are ready way behind without anyone intended behind when anyone intended the fund for disability insurance Risley ran out and was combined with the greater social security fund which is itself scheduled to run out of money in 2034 the fact that a program designed for relatively small number of Americans has now become such a major lifeline for people and communities is part of the great displacements we pretend that our economy is doing all right while millions of people give up and get on the draw or get on the check is a $143,000,000,000 per year shock absorber for the unemployed or of employable whose ranks are growing all of the time after one gets on disability one enters a permanent shadow class of beneficiaries even if you start feeling better you're not going to risk a left of benefits for eight tenuous job they could disappear at any moments and it's likely not be easier to think of yourself as genuinely disabled that as someone cheating society for a monthly draw many Americans disabled are not have some degree of health problems if you've got a good job you might ignore it or hurt back or if your job offers Health Insurance have access to affordable way to treat it and continue working if you don't have a job and starts to oh mount you can easily starts to feel more infirm this is doubly true in environments where work is mostly Manual and involves a lot of wear and tear for many the chain of circumstances is to go from former manufacturing worker to disability recipients the other major effusions been retail jobs after these jobs disappear the ranks of the disabled will swell disability illustrates the challenges of mandating the governments to administer such a large scale program is essentially the worst of all worlds as the truly disabled and needy may find themselves shut out by red tape while the presses rewards those who lawyer up and the lawyers themselves is sends a pervasive message of game the system and get money and they give yourself as incompetence and incapable of work is subject to broaden and once you're on you never leave 14 and video games and the mail meaning of life D. 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Virtual worlds get back what has been scooped out of modern life in gives us back community the feeling of competence in a sense of being an important person whom people depend on Jonathan it got shelled when I was seven let parents watch me and my brother and Atari 2600th the first mass cane council the game became with was asteroids we play that gave an awful lots one night we snuck down in the middle of the night only to discover my dad already playing it's it's a bad weather and I love going to school arcades that in to try to make a few quarters last as long as possible it was the perfect sort of incentive you when you keep playing you lose your force to stand there and watch others play hoping that someone is forced to leave their game in the middle to you can't jump in the became very good at and video games my favorite was street fighter two I memorize the mortal combat fatalities to inflate graphic arm on defeated enemies on the PC I wasn't the first time I played in shunts art of war when I was nine is I got older real time strategy games for like more craft in stark went awry and two combined a fish and meat building armies and settlements with the feeding alive opponents my friends and I would sit next to each other in a house with several network computers taking on strangers and talking trash the amount of time I spent on video games drop dramatically after I graduated from college I wanted to go on dates and playing video games wasn't helping I developed a notion that virtual world building and real life world building were at odds with each other that started reading books on investing in financial statement analysis would seem to meet to be the real world and along to becoming good at and video games by the time I started dabbling in games again as my brother in law to school meet in defense of the ancients door to over the holidays yet looked forward to a point where I felt old and slow memorizing key commands seemed beyond me that said I still understand and appreciate video games on a visceral level I even imagined that I could get into them again they speak to a primal set of basic impulse is to world creating scale building achievements violence leadership team work speed the fish and sea status decision-making and accomplishments the fall into a whole suite of things that appeal to young men in particular to me the list would go something like gaming the stock market fantasy sports gambling basketball science fiction geek movies and crypto currencies most of which involve all blends of numbers and optimize edition is a need for mastery progress competition and risk as of last year 22% of men between the ages of 21 and 30 with less than a bachelor's degree reported not working at all in the previous year up from only 9.5% in 2000 and there's evidence that video games are a big reason why according to a recent study based on the census bureau's time you surveys young men without college degrees have replaced 75% of the time they used to spend working with time on the computer mostly playing video games from 2004 to 2007 young unemployed men without college degrees were spending 3.4 hours per week playing video games by 2011 to 2014 the average time spent per week had more than doubled 28.6 powers the economists conducting the study and led by the university of chicago's Eric Hurst strain to figure out whether men who were already detached or playing video games to pass the time or whether video games were actually causing them to drop outs evidence pointed to the latter year research indicated that improved technological entertainment options primarily video games are responsible for between 20 and 33% of reduced work hours the trends are different for women who have not seen the same increase in gaming at the expense of working hours and are more likely to return to school when out of work for many men however games of gotten so good that they have made dropping out of work a more appealing option when I play a game I know if I have a few hours I will be rewarded said 122 year old who lives with his parents in silver spring merry land's with the job is always been up in the air with the amount of work I put in and a reward she can bury a 21 year old in Michigan finds it easier to get excited about playing games that is part time job making sandwiches at a local TV john's particularly given the sense of community he finds online he plays up to 40 hours a week the equivalent of a fulltime job how exactly are these been playing mandating by they live with their parents in 2000 just 35% of lower skilled young man lived with family now in more than 50% of lower skilled on men live with their parents in as many as 67% of those who are unemployed do so now U.S. men aged 18 to 34 are now living with their parents then with romantic partners according to the pew research center in your gains function as extremely inexpensive entertainment on a time use basis after one invests in the council or computer the marginal cost is near zero gamers can logged hundreds of thousands of hours for the cost of one game or rental subscription time spent gaming is what's known in economic terms as an inferior good the poorer you are the more of it you consume recent studies found that households making between $25,035 thousand a year spent 92 more minutes per week online that households making $100,000 plus a year the image of legions of men in their parents' basement playing video games for hours on and may seem pathetic or said but their satisfaction level is kind happiness is gone up for this group says first the spike the high rate of unemployment was describes his finding as its staggering and observes of his owned 12 year old son if it were up to him I have no doubt he would play video games 23 1/2 hours per day he told me so if we didn't rush and video games I'm not sure you whenever he eats and positive he wouldn't shower the own games are fun and communal nowadays there also so well designed that many or most simulate jobs if a jobs progress were measured in minutes and hours instead of weeks and months in many games you perform a variety of one day and repetitive tasks in order to build points or currencies or a cruel items you then use these items to make yourself more capable you complete quests with your friends or against the computer you experience a continuous feeling of progress and accomplishments is one can imagine the problems come later playing video games as a pseudo job that doesn't pay can be funded social and even cool in your teens and twenties by the time you're in your thirties your friends may have moved on and you become the loser shot and who lurks around the local game stop there is some evidence that these young lower skilled men who are happy in their twenties become much less happy in their thirties and forties says Hurst their works kills and prospects will be limited and competing in the workforce will be hotter and hotter to the extent they ever wanted to go out and start a family in may see more and more unrealistic and out of reach you're likely to stay detached and matrix from video games to gambling drugs and alcohol indeed the most recent general social survey showed that 31% of working age men were out of the workforce emitted to illegal drug use in the past 12 months the annual time you survey in 20 14th indicated high levels of time spent attending gambling establishments tobacco and drug use listening to the radio and arts and crafts as a hobby with over 80 hours per day spent on socializing relaxing and leisure is insured surveys showed lower likelihood of volunteering or attending religious services than for men in the workforce as byte having considerably more time every society has a bad man problem says Tenneco when the economist and author of a vengeance over the projects a future where a relative handful of high productivity individuals create most of the value while low skill people become preoccupied with cheap digital entertainment to stay happy and organize their lives games of, long way since I was a kid and there are about to take yet another leap forward virtual reality headsets are creating experiences that will take simulations to a whole new level chisel digital entertainment will get better and better the analogue in the real world will become less and less appealing before long did you games virtual reality and pornography will merge into new forms of immersive experience is there will be more and more compelling than a pure enjoyment basis is going to be hard to beats fifth to imagine a 21 year old college dropout was not excited to make sandwiches at Jerry john's and prefers his gaming community you can say to him in a this cheery jobs java could go too, could go places sure you make $8.00 an hour now but maybe if you stick with it for a few years you could become a manager that actually you can make $35,000 or so if you really excel and are willing to work long and hard HRS including waking up at 5:00 AM to slice up tomatoes and cucumbers every morning and commits to its the above is possibly true or the retail district manager around his jimmy Johnston shrink and imagined management job might never open up or jimmy john's could bring in an automated system that gets rid of cashiers in front of house staff two years from now or his manager could just choose someone else I can't really say that the Food Service job is more intellectually stimulating or social then playing video games the main virtues seem to be that it pays money imposes discipline involves face to face contact with other real humans and might need somewhere in previous Eras of growth that really might have I sympathize with this kid in part because I feel like the tradeoffs are more difficult than most people realize I was given the choice between a dead and low and a job for months on end or hanging with my friends playing video games would be very easy to choose the latter the consequences are somewhat vague and down the road man imagine themselves to be Kings warriors CEOs athletes ladies man geniuses soldiers workers achievers in part of a band of brothers all of these things are possible online of course I believe that people should go out in the real world get a good job fall in love gets married become a homeowner have a child be a good parents leave the world a better place and so on and try to do it myself is the substance of life in committee and requires a degree of evolution and positive social reinforcements particularly trying to be a good parents but this version of achievement is not going to be sustainable for more and more Americans the jobs are going to lead nowhere and then disappear there will be very limited social reinforcement the incentives to stay immersed in the virtual world will rise as a world outside its Harvard and less welcoming billions of dollars will be spent facilitated their immersion in number of my guy friends have gotten divorced in their thirties and forties others have become detached from society mail dysfunction tends to take on an air of nihilism and dropping out the world and relationships may take work you could yourself for the workplace in a suit of armor if you ever take it off and stop working you get swept away many men have within us the man child who still in that basements the fortunate among those have left him behind but we understand his appeal all too well the still there waiting ready to take over in case our lives fall of hearts 15 of a shape were in the disintegration the progress of a few fortunate decades and can too easily be swept away by a few years of trouble Ryan events the challenges of job loss in technological unemployment are among the most significant faced by our society in history there even more daunting than any external enemy because both the enemy and the victims are hard to identify within a few hundred when a few hundred workers that replaced or a plant closes the people around them and odors and a community suffers the two the rest of us each closing is seen as a part of economic progress and will stop there , and I'm reading the war on normal people buy and regained and I'm mike zone thanks for listening to NETT FT 1 of one one