Very sad:

A dairy farmer, Jean-Pierre Le Guelvout, once kept 66 cows at a thriving estate in southern Brittany. But falling milk prices, accumulating debts, depression and worries about his heath in middle age became too much to bear. Just 46, Mr. Le Guelvout shot himself in the heart in a grove behind his house one cold December day last year. “It was a place that he loved, near the fields that he loved,” explained his sister Marie, who said she was “very close” to him but did not see his suicide coming. The death of Ms. Le Guelvout’s brother was part of a quiet epidemic of suicide among French farmers with which stoical rural families, the authorities, public health officials and researchers are trying to grapple. Farmers are particularly at risk, they all say, because of the nature of their work, which can be isolating, financially precarious and physically demanding. For farmers who do not have children to help with the work and eventually take over, the burden is that much greater. Falling prices for milk and meat have also added to debts and stress in recent years. Researchers and farming organizations agree that the problem has persisted for years, but while they have stepped up efforts to help farmers, the effectiveness of such measures and the toll from suicides remain difficult to quantify. The most recent statistics, made public in 2016 by France’s public health institute, show that 985 farmers killed themselves from 2007 to 2011 — a suicide rate 22 percent higher than that of the general population.

It is difficult for anyone to live in a world for which their psychology is not designed. I’ve always thought it ironic that the stress for K’s living in a world run by r-rules would be much higher than for the r’s. You would think minds designed for shortage would be great in a world of plenty, but it isn’t so. Things which you are programmed to think should matter don’t, and things you would dismiss are exactly how you succeed.

This farmer busted his ass from sun up to sun down, providing a valuable product people need, and he was sinking into debt. His brain couldn’t compute what was going on, or transition to attention-whoring as a boutique brand to increase his income.

Meanwhile Kim Kardashian laid out naked on a bed letting a guy pee all over her, and then let the video be posted on the internet, and now she makes $51 million dollars a year. I searched for the link on that (it is buried at startpage), and saw one summary for a page which commented on how sharp-eyed viewers of her sex tape would have noted specific things about her vagina, and another which said her mom shot the sex/pee video, wasn’t happy with the first cut, and made her shoot it again. Literally, she will become a billionaire, just off antics like that, as the farmer above starves. This is r-selection. Different rules.

The rules are different now, most K’s just aren’t adapted, and many of them can’t make any adjustments because they do not even understand how the rules have changed.

The thing is, change is coming again, and the world will make sense soon.

Just hang in there.

Tell others about r/K Theory, because K’s deserve better