I understood both the article and the comments to be saying that a set of economic circumstances must necessarily have produced the outcome of people’s ending their lives prematurely in a variety of ways.
Not like law of gravity or anything.
but...how to say this delicately.
What about a person with an IQ of 90-95. He can do janitorial work, maybe with time and practice, home repair, some car repairs, that kind of thing; but bioinformatics is going to be out of his reach.
In addition, his ...self-confidence, his ability to execute, his flexibility...might not be up to moving across the country on a dime, when he didn't have $45,000 to his name, let alone in ready cash in a reserve fund.
I remember years ago, someone posted with this same kind of stuff, talking about how he got a stock tip in GE, and invested $100,000, and made $20k in a few weeks, something like that.
He seemed genuinely surprised that most people
a) didn't have $100, 000 free to invest in something as risky as the short-term move of a stock
b) Didn't have a set of rich relatives to give them investing advice, stock tips, or contacts;
c) Didn't even have a combined family gross income of $100,000, let alone $50,000.
Some of the elite class take too much for granted; and blame those who never had, for being unable to navigate new obstacles put in their way.
Which they didn't even know were coming.
Which they didn't even know *could* happen.
The offshoring / importing of Mexicans/H1-Bs took place in the blink of an eye, compared to the life of a community, or even one person's career and time to retrain.
And having people like Bill Kristol and that other guy from National Review crowing how they should "learn to code" (with H1-Bs, right!) or just move across the country, or just...die...
This is why President Trump is adored, and why NOTHING the left tries to separate him from his base, will ever work.