Aka capitalism. Look at other countries...
The mental health problems are propably effecting lower wages more. And i guess work hours and alienation effect birth rate.
The mental health problems are propably effecting lower wages more. And i guess work hours and alienation effect birth rate.
Things like gratitude are really tough - I'm unhappy that a shop doesn't have the exact thing I like, whereas undernourished comrades in Communist Russia had to queue for bread for hours, and might feel gratitude if on one day they only have to queue for one hour. What you're used to radically changes how you feel about a situation.
It's tricky, but it's also not.
The cognitive ability to reason about large scale problems is also in decline, in a society that sees no alternative, like whatabout socialism. Could you tell?
If tou cannot adress the problem, maybe you are part of it!
Also, "perversly true to be bored in an imcredible economy"? Sounds like GDP is more important than happiness to you. Maybe take your time and rethink that in the light of sociatal contracts and mortality too.
Such things are even more pronuncied in communist societies where efficiency, political ortodoxy, collective needs are placed well above personal social needs.
I should have clarified that alienation is not the only source of unhappines, having no perpesctive in robotic labour is another important part, which i just scratched by mentioning low wage workers. There are very repetitive tasks that can still fullfill you, eg. simply by having contact to customers.
Raising wages, lowering work hours or extending worker protections would help the depressed workforce but these things threaten capital income and so, have somehow less political momemtum until it explodes in a revolution.