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Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden

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Re: Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden

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post #4

I don't have a source, but I've been hearing that this is just common among young people everywhere. They blamed social media for Americans.

> They blamed social media for Americans. I think you meant "blamed Americans for social media" but at this point they both kinda fit

i interpreted it as "for the phenomenon noted in Americans, they blamed social media."

Re: Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden

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post #3

Clickbait/editorializing in submission title. Also: Paper doesn't robustly support this statement. The actual title of the paper: "Flourishing in Sweden: Great overall — but not for all" But the poster clearly knows what kind of title makes a post fly.

Page 21, 4.6 Conclusions explains it quite clearly:

> ... our findings highlight notable disparities—particularly among young adults—that underscore the need for more targeted efforts to promote flourishing across all segments of Swedish society.

Re: Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden

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post #3

Clickbait/editorializing in submission title. Also: Paper doesn't robustly support this statement. The actual title of the paper: "Flourishing in Sweden: Great overall — but not for all" But the poster clearly knows what kind of title makes a post fly.

Page 21, 4.6 Conclusions explains it quite clearly: > ... our findings highlight notable disparities—particularly among young adults—that underscore the need for more targeted efforts to promote flourishing across all segments of Swedish society.

Does it really?

Re: Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden

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post #4

I don't have a source, but I've been hearing that this is just common among young people everywhere. They blamed social media for Americans.

Among young people everywhere and everywhen? I would guess that young people were less satisfied with life than older folks in most every time period.

Re: Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden

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post #9
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd blame technology altogether. People are losing their purpose.

I'd blame the ever decreasing ratio between salaries and the cost of living. And the fact that salaries don't really grow for years now, while the productivity, and so the generated wealth, does.

meaningfully, this is equivalent to the parent commenter. "technology"

I loathe the "pop critique" employment of the phrase, but this is definitionally late-stage capitalism.

obviously capitalism is named as such because it is founded upon the concept of (private) capital. capital serves to lower margins and increase profitability. it has been remarkably successful and has immensely raised QoL for virtually the planet's entire population. we are now reckoning with its inevitable consequences. manpower is unreliable. it gets sick. it has children. it has eccentricities. it is fundamentally unpredictable. Capital seeks efficiency and reliability. What percentage of the population is capable of building data centers? Of engineering massive scale LLMs?

What happens when Capital no longer needs labor?

Re: Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden

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post #8

This is one of those topics where everyone is going to insert their personal bête noire as the cause. "Tech, the economy, culture, immigrants, loss of religion, corruption, polarization, capitalism, socialism!". I actually really like threads like this, since it's a good way to get a pulse on what the different discontentment topics are at any given time.

All of the boogeymen you mentioned are strands of a singular issue, a singular phenomenon.

Re: Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden

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post #4

I don't have a source, but I've been hearing that this is just common among young people everywhere. They blamed social media for Americans.

Is there any period in history when the young people reported being as happy or happier than the older cohort?
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