This is John Bachelor under the weather, nonetheless looking at the jobs numbers, very positive jobs numbers, despite the rocky nature of the economy, two parts of the economy, the Ferrari economy and the

Dollar Store economy. The numbers are looking healthy. The question is what else

are we seeing? Mental health crisis is a verdict given in many of the cities where

the homeless overwhelm and inadequate mental health care throughout the United States,

even in well-affordid communities.

Is that driving these phenomenon of men not at work?

Have we emerged from after the pandemic or is it worse on the basis of the city

reporting after the migration from the south? It's much worse. Here's

Eberstadt. Nicholas Eberstadt, more of this later.

It surely does something to self-esteem because we can look at what's going on with

the so-called deaths of despair in the United States, the deaths from drug overdoses, from

suicide, from cirrhosis, this is Anne Case and Angus Deaton's classification from some years back.

I mean, these are looking a little bit too much like Russia for comfort if you see what I mean.

So it's not it's not as if people are dropping out of the

workforce and then enhancing themselves through the use of free time or restoring themselves through the use of free time.

What's suggested by the mortality numbers is that people are on a track towards misery.