I know this is several years late, but a lot of what you write resonates so much with me that I felt a need to reply. I don’t have any solutions or advice. I’m not quite bad enough right now to be suicidal. I was for a while — ironically while I *was* employed, because I just hated my job so much — now I have been…

My thought is that people are finding things in video games that reality doesn’t give them, or that they see no way of finding in reality. We grow up expecting life to be an adventure, we want to do exciting things, creative things, joyful things. Some of us want to change the world. Then we become adults and find out…

Alternative suggestion: If we want more people to be employed when they have another option available, perhaps employment needs to be made more attractive. Or don’t we believe in the free market? If the price offered is too low, you don’t sell the product.

You probably didn’t carry this commenter for nine months, though, so why are you getting so high and mighty and judgey with them?

... Because they are being treated badly in an unfair way? Isn’t that usually a good reason to care? I mean, I don’t understand why you’re bragging about being apathetic or uncaring about other people. It’s unfortunately probably true that on average lots of people don’t care about the well-being of other human beings…