Sleepless nights due to anxieties — financial and otherwise — would logically make those suffering from them worse-equipped in solving the problems causing them to lose sleep. The worst examples of these cycles result in demonstrable mental illness, homelessness, suicides, mass-shootings, and other tragedies. Mainline examples that are more likely to be seen for longer periods of time would then include strained relationships, impulsive behavior, and other long-term effects of general unhealth, the visible results of which unfortunately do a lot to discredit the people suffering from these effects and therefore any proposals to help them.
Every single time a drunk driver is arrested, or every single time a mass-shooter is detained, or every single time a person is discharged from a mental institution with either a high bill or a high burden on the healthcare system; a single fire has been put out and society — often too ill to see the bigger picture — cheers the government and its outdated and often ineffectual institutions for promoting the general welfare of the American people. Society cheers while 99.9% of fires have not been put out, and society cheers even though the handful of causes of these fires is still present.
Society should strive toward the goal of having put out fewer fires than having put out many.
