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A Boring Dystopia
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Here's the thing. This isn't a generational thing. People of all ages, at all points in time were unhappy. The difference is, I'm in my 40s, and I don't sit there and tell everyone who asks if I'm unhappy.
"Hey, how are you?"
"Good."
And then everyone moves on with their life. Doesn't mean I'm doing good. I just know that nobody gives a shit that I'm not doing ok, and never have been doing good mentally.
Whereas younger people haven't figured out yet that all their friends will eventually betray them, all their love interests will eventually leave them, happyness is a myth, and that we all die depressed and alone. So younger people are more vocal, thinking it's going to change something.
Unfortunately this analysis is a year over year comparison over the same age groups, not an age over age comparison in the same year. So your claim would not apply in this case.
Doesn't matter. I'm talking about an age group. Just like 7 year old boys will always love trains. Doesn't matter if that boy is 7 in 1921, 1945, 2002, 2024, 7 year olds will always love trains.
And everybody, regardless of age, will be miserable. It's just that when your younger, you're more vocal. When you're older you realize you're not changing shit. So just do what you can instead.
What do you mean brother? The whole point of this paper is that the youth of age 18-24 in 2024 are not behaving like the youth of age 18-24 in 2009 up to 2018.
Oh, they absolutely did. The same problems that exist today, have existed for hundreds of years. The only thing thats new is covid.