kinda wild how if youre not ultra wealthy and want to hang on to a room full of shit someone left you youre a hoarder and there are whole TV shows about what a freak you are but if you want to hoard the GDP of 3/4th of the planet that's just supposed to be normal

Striking chart. Lots of factors drove these trend-lines, of course. But one that drove both is “the Sixties”—that is, Cuckoo’s Nest-R.D. Laing-Thomas Szaz convincing people mental illness is a “myth” & demonizing mental hospitals, and violent crime tripling in a decade.