Deeply Unhappy Gen Z and Millennials Cause U.S. to Drop in Global Happiness Ranking
Deeply Unhappy Gen Z and Millennials Cause U.S. to Drop in Global Happiness Ranking

Deeply Unhappy Gen Z and Millennials Cause U.S. to Drop in Global Happiness Ranking

Who is actually surprised by this? I would be more surprised if young Americans felt it was a great place to live.
Millennials killing yet one more thing I guess. Really though, you can't blame them, given the state of affairs, we should really be placing blame where it's due, on the people who are driving up house prices, rents, and general prices overall. A friend's rent just went up $150 this year (~10% increase), and it's the exact same shithole it's been for the past year. Meanwhile, annual raises are typically only 2-4% if you're lucky...
"Rich Elites Cause U.S. to Drop in Global Happiness Ranking" is a more apt title.
Yeah.
I struggled with panic attacks in the military and during an aid mission we brought a bunch of medical staff from other countries with us.
So I talked with a German psychiatrist.
His advice was basically:
Which helped a lot more than it sounds like would have.
He didn't try to pill me up or anything or say it was my fault for how I'm handling it.
Just very simple matter of fact told me my response was 100% rational.
What the fuck does the average American have to be happy about right now? Millennials being unhappy is because life sucks for lots of us.
I’m just a normal civvie software engineer, but this is actually a thought process that I have struggled with mightily, and continue to do so: as a conscientious human who has a strong interest in history, is it reasonable and ethical for me to medicate myself into quiescence, when my anxiety and distress is directly caused by the fact that I care about the world and happen to know a good deal about current events?
Or, if you’re more neurotypical / are better at compartmentalization: is it ethically ok to just straight up ignore all the systematic, horrifyingly bad shit going on in the world?
I’m pretty privileged to be in a good spot and even I can see the writing on the wall - everyone around me is sad, overwhelmed, stressed, and angry and they can’t find anything that opens the release valve. I don’t understand how all these selfish bastards can look around and think that the US is doing great.
Absolutely. It's not their fault, it's just that they happen to grow up in late stage extreme capitalism.
The US is an extreme country where all that matters is company profits. Happiness is not needed. If people are sad, you replace them. It actually seems to be like that.
That’s why the captivity is so desirable and why it’s only going to get worse. Desperate people don’t have the luxury of caring if the job they take is going to be fulfilling or happy. They need the money more than any empathy or principles they have. If people are sad, you replace them because there’s crowds of desperate people that also quit their last job because it made them unhappy and now all their bills are 10-15% higher than they were before.
My rent is going up $200 a month "because insurance rates went up". Sounds like a cost of doing business fam, and not my problem.
I live in the attic of an old house with poor insulation and it is already getting into the upper 80's after noon, somehow it is hotter than ambient. Summers are brutal. All my windows have holes and a squirrel got in.
I am lucky, I am just going to move when my lease is up.
Hot air rises, and you're in the attic
Insulation might honestly make it worse. If you can, try to open a window low and a window high and move air out the higher window as much as you can. A cheap box fan wedged in the window pointing out to help draw cool air up and through is very helpful I find.
Also it might be wise to just buy screen mesh for cheap and staple it to the window frames.