Activists posing as journalists.

Maybe kids are depressed because of recklessly fear-mongering adults?

0 social safety net = Aid to Families with Dependent Children, food stamps, unemployment insurance, section 8 housing assistance, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

Anyone who thinks we live in an economic hellscape now needs a time machine to go back before modern dentistry, air conditioning, indoor plumbing, and the cheap social media on which they do their bitching.

There's no such thing as late stage capitalism because despite the lingering belief in Marxism, history is not deterministic.