Who is actually surprised by this? I would be more surprised if young Americans felt it was a great place to live.
I’m a millenial who finds himself defending gen Z’s attitudes all the time.
Oh they’re not trying hard in school? No shit, the world is burning and getting worse.
Oh they aren’t providing stellar customer service at their minimum wage job? No shit, they see how Gen X and millennials were lied to about working hard and moving up
Oh they’re gambling like crazy? No shit, how else are they going to afford a home without betting big?
The Greatest Generation sold Boomers on the American Dream
Boomers used and abused it and sold Gen X a lie
Millennials were on board until they saw how Gen X was struggling
And Gen Z was born into the internet with access to information. NO SHIT they aren’t buying it.
I’m doing my part 🫡
I don’t think it’s limited to these two groups
Gotta find someone to blame for past fuckups. Lets blame young people
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:
Yeah, you’re in an incredibly stressful situation, obviously you’re going to be stressed, it’s completely normal
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.
If you are curious, that is part of logotherapy, which was started by a German.
“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.” ― Victor Frankl, Man’s Search For Ultimate Meaning
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?
We’re all stuck here right now, and no individual can really change anything that matters on their own.
But if everyone does a little and helps each other out, all of us added together can make ridiculous amounts of change with very little effort.
Like that whole “think globally, act locally” thing that I only remember from that Pauly Shore movie Biodome.
These aren’t impossible problems to fix, we just need to get enough people to acknowledge we need to fix shit. Once we do that, the rest is easy.
So it feels like impossible tasks, but easier than it looks
“We stole their future. It’s all their fault.” - Jello Biafra
“How dare they be unhappy, it’s gonna decrease my house value” - boomers probably
The true surprise is that we were ever that high up. Did they only survey the richest people? Were previous generations too stupid to understand their situation? Is the rest of the world literally hell?
Israel is also high up, currently ranking number 6. You can guess who weren’t interviewed there.
