That attitude probably needs to stop. If people aren't capable of understanding it, they shouldn't be expected to care or pour money towards it via tax. While it continues to draw significant tax spending, unaffected people get a say. Sorry, not sorry. I think a small portion of society is genuinely mentally unwell, but farmers overmortgaging their farm betting on rain is not depression or society's problem. It's circumstantial economic sadness and self pity. There is way too much feeling sorry for yourself in this country for conditions that are even written into the national anthem and obvious on maps. If you can predict a future depression by current mortgage status and weather patterns...it's not a mental illness in my books.
Back when Ansett was busy going broke, there were employees crying and handing out flyers about loss of entitlements and the levy to support their suffering. I genuinely gasped and asked them their understanding of the IT industry circa 2000. They had never seen an airline fold and had previously had job security. In IT back then, companies folding was perfectly normal and job security was non existent. Entitlements...let's just say that you didn't let entitlements build up too much unless you didn't want them. These Ansett workers were crying and getting depressed over conditions which were entirely normal in IT and wouldn't phase us, yet Ansett got the hand-holding levy that IT never would.