The factors that seem to exacerbate<unk>  are not fully known, but they are generally recognized as including a worsening of economic inequality and feeling of hopelessness about personal financial success. This can take many forms and appear in different situations. For example, people feel inadequate and disadvantaged when products are marketed to them as being important, but these products repeatedly prove to be unaffordable for them. The overall loss of employment in affected geographic regions, and stagnant wages and deteriorating working conditions along with the decline of labor unions and the welfare state, are widely hypothesized factors. The changes in the labor market also affect social connections that might otherwise provide protection, as people at risk for this problem are less likely to get married, more likely to get divorced, and more likely to experience social isolation. However, some experts claim the correlation between income and mortality/morbidity rate is only coincidental. Anne Case and Angus Deaton argue that “after 1999, blacks with a college education experienced even more severe percentage declines in income than did whites in the same education group. Yet black mortality rates have fallen steadily, at rates between 2 and 3 percent per year for all age groups.” Many other examples from Europe also show that decreased incomes and/or increased unemployment do not, in general, correlate with increased mortality rates. Therefore we must ask – what could be the true reason for the “working class Whites”, defined as White non-Hispanics with a high school degree or less, especially those living in rural areas, being most vulnerable to<unk>  and deaths of<unk> ? Firstly, unlike African Americans and Hispanics, working class Whites are usually economically in a worse situation than their parents. College educated people often find new and more prosperous occupations than their ancestors and therefore can easily find their undeniable place in the society, but working class Whites lose their ground in the modern world and can feel hopeless about their future. Secondly, rural communities are endangered by globalisation like never before. Young workers often choose between staying with their family and going to urban areas to reach better jobs and the older generation has fewer employment opportunities. Living a meaningful life in the countryside is becoming a challenge. Economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton argue that the ultimate cause is the sense that life is meaningless, unsatisfying, or unfulfilling, rather than strictly the basic economic security that makes these higher order feelings more likely. But why are the African Americans and Hispanics “immune” to the<unk> ? Probably because their situation, despite the fact that economically is still generally worse, seems much more positive from their own point of view. These people grow up in their own solid social groups, which are usually very interconnected and thus provide a relatively stable base of social contacts. This factor may significantly decrease the risk of feeling lonely, lost or unwanted, even though segregation is still present de facto everywhere in the USA. They are also much more likely to be better off than their parents regardless of their achieved education. Ultimately, recent data show that<unk>  pose a complex threat to the modern society and that they are not correlated only to the economic strength of an individual. Social connections, level of education, place of residence, medical condition, mental health, working opportunities, subjective perception of one's own future – all of these play a role in determining whether the individual will suffer from<unk>  or not. Additionally, the younger generations are more and more influenced by social media and other modern technologies, which may have unexpected and unfavourable effects on their lives as well. For example, according to a study from 2016, the use of social media "was significantly associated with increased depression."
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