Schadenfreude is strong in humans especially young people (main demography of internet) and multiple papers link increased effect of it in people with depressio

Schadenfreude is strong in humans especially young people (main demography of internet) and multiple papers link increased effect of it in people with depression. It feels cyclic, increased internet usage leading to mental health problems leading to you caring less about others and isolation with negative thoughts being magnified online (who are curators?) and other normal users being driven towards it through social conformation and increased internet usage is probably caused by failures of parenting, school, society and environment. Lack of mentorship and models. Some of it could be attributed to disconnection and huge disparity in problems people face - inequality, literate supremacy, global impression and visibility in what you can get. Social media might be perhaps incentivising some of the behaviors but it's not the root cause of it perhaps? Maybe the notion of a good healthy society is finally crumbling due to visibility? Being forced to admit that world is unfair most of your day is not very healthy imo and its effects are stronger the more big of a disparity there is. I think education could help there with compulsory classes on how to deal with negative thoughts, differences and other problematic behaviors before you need to drip into antidepressants and years of therapy. Oh not to mention the statistics trend, the one most 'rationalists' fall for. I am tired of extrapolation and over fitting in everything these days. It hides problems so so well. 1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=schadenfreude&oq=schadenf https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=scha...