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1y ago

The U.S. is no longer one of the 20 happiest countries. If you're young, you probably know why.

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The U.S. is no longer one of the 20 happiest countries. If you're young, you probably know why.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ @lemmy.ml

1y ago

The U.S. is no longer one of the 20 happiest countries. If you're young, you probably know why.

www.nbcnews.com /news/world/us-no-longer-one-20-happiest-countries-re-young-probably-know-rcna144199

26 comments

I'm confused. The stock market is at an all time high and unemployment is low, how is anything bad?
- Bring back 3rd party dedicated servers
  
  I want to host my own server.
  People love Minecraft for this.
  
  The lack of server browser in modern games is definitely contributing to my unhappiness
it's because not enough young people know about Hexbear.
I was unhappy, then I came to hexbear and now I have a permanent smile.
- It appears you’re also dead. There’s clearly rigor mortis on your face.
  
  Who is this disgusting creature in the mirror?
  
  Everyone’s a superstar here
More surprised it was there to begin with. Guess plundering USSR was a greater boon than I thought
- Nah, it's just that the myth of the American dream/exceptionalism has well and truly collapsed. People aren't dramatically worse off, they just can't rationalize their misery as being temporary or for a good cause anymore.
  And don't get me wrong, they ARE worse off, but I think being unable to deny that fact is a greater psychic hit than the conditions themselves.
  
  The government could kick the can down the road like thirty more years if they bought out Blackrock's real estate ventures and sold all of their properties at rock bottom prices to people who don't already own a home. Having a house cushions you from so much pain and grants access to financial instruments that can get you through a crisis, our economy basically depends on a majority of people doing it.
- The USA is still a very young country (in the sense that settlers have only been reaping the land for ~150 years in the entire western half). Each little sliver of opportunity hadn't been snatched up until pretty recently.
  
  Yeah, in that sense, but native people have been in America for 10k years.
It’s because the drugs are shit now
- Bringing back quaaludes would fix this
I feel like happiness is very hard to quantify and am very skeptic of the value of studies that measure it.
- While reasons for why somebody may be happy or not are indeed complex, it's not hard for people to state whether they feel happy or not.

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