While Lemmy loves their memes and jokes about the government and the economy, this is what real world stress results in. I'm sure they will find a rich online life for this guy and recent financial trouble.

For every 1% increase in unemployment, 40,000 people die in a country with no social net. That's what a shit hole is.

"reasoning" is not going to be the right word for whatever was going on in this guy's head.

I remembering seeing something similar happen in my state, father had lost their job and murdered their whole immediate family to prevent them from becoming homeless.

Nuts, but there are a lot of homeless around here and it does not get easy to pull yourself or your family out of that.

It's a disturbingly prevalent mindset really. The idea that the patriarch, the pater familias, literally owns the family. That his wife and children are possessions to do with as he pleases. In ancient Rome it was litteral. He could kill them if he wished. Not even unique to Rome. Its still around today. A sick aspect of conservative ideology that persists and infects society the world over.

Its the sickening undercurrent to conservative "parents rights" arguments.

✨patriarchy✨

These people see family as property, not individuals with their own agency.

And I'll never understand a grandmother's reason for doing this

Its usually caused by either that or money. Says she was a substitute teacher.

I bet it was money related.

Seems like he was essentially the sole breadwinner and lost his job.

I don’t remember any of their names, even the ones you wrote.

Nah, I don't remember any of them.

I don't remember like any names of stuff like this, but it seems like the general understanding among all the people I've ever discussed these topics with is that it's primarily men who do this shit.

just chiming in to say anecdotally that maybe people have a better understanding of things now

what always surprises me, though, is the rates. the US is big, but 1 every 5 days still seems so fucked up to me