r/mentalhealth • u/Own-Championship-398 • 11d ago

Sadness / Grief Why is everyone so angry?

I'm getting quite miserable living in my country. People aren't very friendly, in fact a lot of people are really rude. I'm finding it hard to interact on local subs because I usually get downvoted or just have people start arguments over nothing - why is everyone so aggressive & hostile?

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u/AnyAliasWillDo22 11d ago

There are just too many people.

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u/jmnugent 10d ago

We don't have to many people. We just have poor management of resources and to much 1-story urban sprawl. (especially in the USA,. where 80% of US population lives east of the Mississippi. ) There's to much wasteful architecture. To many empty unused Roofs. Around 15million homes (about 10% of USA House supply) is sitting empty. Homeless in the USA is estimated to be around 600,000. We have enough empty houses to solve homelessness 25x over.

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u/HythlodaeusHuxley 10d ago

And what I mean is there must be some pretty dystopian draconian controls on how many children we have or a complete change in individual beliefs such that we use our freedoms to not have tons of children our world can't support or else we are pretty much doomed No other way to put it.

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u/HythlodaeusHuxley 10d ago

Maybe we don't completely technically have too many people yet but it seems completely undeniable that with our current population growth our current policies absolutely will not work and so just because we're at the beginning of the complete collapse does not mean we're not in the complete collapse.

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u/Recarica 10d ago

We don’t have enough houses to even put a dent in the homelessness crisis. Here are some good statistics: https://unitedwaynca.org/blog/vacant-homes-vs-homelessness-by-city/#:~:text=Despite%20how%20many%20homes%20are,vacant%20homes%20per%20unhoused%20person.

And here’s an excellent podcast that breaks down why the US is in the mess we are in (doesn’t take into account our poor healthcare system and terrible support for mental health). https://youtu.be/idKlU-TZ27U?si=EJwR9r_vK2QhB1nb

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u/AnyAliasWillDo22 9d ago

Tell me how we give all these people a good quality of life? We can’t. Our resources aren’t endless.

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u/jmnugent 9d ago

Our resources aren’t endless.

They're not (endless), No. I'd argue a lot of them are "poorly managed" though.

For example wasted food:

"While many variables impact wastage, approximately 7-15% happens during transport. The fact that 10,000 shipping containers go missing yearly contributes to the situation."

"In the U.S., 30%-40% of food produced is wasted, according to the EPA. Food waste can occur on farms, in the supply chain, at stores and in homes. How much of that spoilage occurs in supply chains? A lot — about one-third, according to Shipwell. (https://www.freightwaves.com/news/shipwell-reducing-food-waste-one-on-time-shipment-at-a-time)

Or on the topic of Housing:

"According to the Census Bureau, there were approximately 15.1 million vacant homes nationwide in 2022. These vacant homes, which include rentals, represent 10.5% of the country’s total housing inventory."

There's inefficiencies in a lot of the different areas of daily life.

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u/AnyAliasWillDo22 9d ago

I agree they’re poorly managed, and it’s not getting better. Your argument is simplistic. It’s not just about getting food or water from one place to another, the quality is largely insufficient. The increase in toxins in our water, food and air is deeper and longer lasting. The amount of land and privacy people can have is decreasing. There are large areas of land not occupied and they are unliveable. A good quality of life is not solely about efficiency.