Are you denying that, on average, those with access to medication, therapy, and other (expensive) aids can at the very least deal with depression better than those without access to such tools? Of course depression can't be 'solved' just like that, after all, everyone is unique. Some will require the specific amounts of certain brands to help them feel 'normal' while others will see no benefit from any sort of medication at all. Everyone who suffers is different. I don't see any denial that rich people have such problems, just that rich people will have much better means of solving some those problems because of their resources. And it's not like you aren't arguing that either so...
Money helps immensely, and as someone on both parts of the fence, money has objectively made my life much, much better. Money doesn't dig you out of that hole but it certainly gives you a step-ladder. It literally solved the issues of, well, Maslows hierarchy of needs. Though that model isn't very good sense people can have problems in all 5 areas and realize it even if it isn't a priority but whatever.
Does money automatically make your addiction go away? No, but having your parents put you in rehab is better than being a junkie on the street knocking on car windows and begging for change so you can continue to drink yourself to death. Does money solve health issues? No, but it does provide a way to go to Canada to seek treatment at a private facility while the same kind of health issue would make a poor person drown in debt to the point that suicide is a better option then paying off such financial blackmail. Does money automatically solve satisfaction among the workplace? No, it might not but pivoting to a new job is certainly easier with connections and finances that can support one going back to college. At least much more than the single black mom working at McD and the 7-11, commuting back and forth and working herself to death in some admittedly pretty shitty workplaces.
This isn't also mentioning that poor folks are suffering disproportionately from things like obesity because they make poor decisions in their diet as they lack the knowledge and financial freedom to properly assess their own health. You won't see that poor black single mom down at the gym, that's for certain.
Regardless this whole discussion is worthless since that is NOT what the hedge fund manager in the article is even talking about. I'm wondering if you even read it because it states that his consumerist lifestyle is what is holding him back from taking a job opportunity (that was offered to him mind you) and also his shitty trophy wife apparently. That and his dissatisfaction comes from the fact that it is a Hostile Work Environment, with snakes backstabbing each other to climb the corporate ladder. It's literally in the OP's quote. This isn't a 'rich people have emotional problems as well' article, it's a 'capitalism creates morons who will become attached to the lifestyle and never ever give it up because of The American DreamTM and thus will eat each other' article.
