Comparing your life to tiktok celebrities is toxic but comparing it to the impoverished halfway around the world is healthy?
Right
They are both distorted perspectives, one I guess makes you appreciate your lot in life, the other makes you realize working for the man until you die/retire in old age kind of sucks.
It's just an extension of the American culture, everyone is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire, whereas in Europe it seems like people sit around waiting for entitlements to be handed to them and then riot in the street when they're not