Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but I have to wonder if there is some chemical we are exposed to more that might be causing mental disorders in addition to early onset cancers. It's always easy to point the finger at a single cause, but the reality is that it's a series of factors that together act like a sophisticated, compound "attack" to the psyche: - Social media weakens your self-confidence and makes you feel in a constant state of inferiori…
Excluding the microplastics thing, I think that your two latter points are actually both derived from the social media changes. Life today for almost everyone in the West is better than ever before, but people are exposed to a lot of thought on social media that 1. life is worse now, 2. in your lifetime there will be terrible destruction happening, which contributes to a sense of fatalism and doom. It is super appeal…
I'm 60. You've just got to be joking.
When minimum wage was $3.30, a one-bedroom apartment cost $285. Now the same apartment is well over $2000.
My university tuition averaged about $1200 a year - that was about 10 35-hour weeks at minimum wage. But I got small scholarships that paid for it. My girlfriend worked in a sub shop two nights a week and had a summer job. No one went into debt.
One working parent could support a stay-at-home parent and pay off a mortgage.
Or you could work part-time and have a modest life and pursue your dream.
People just walked into career jobs right out of university.
Listening to young people today, unless they're in one of a small number of very much in demand fields, the idea of stability, steady advancement, or buying a home seem impossible.