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I hear you, but trying to evaluate if a generation feels worse while having it better in absolute terms feels like a pretty hard challenge. For instance the ar
by makeitdouble 4y ago
I hear you, but trying to evaluate if a generation feels worse while having it better in absolute terms feels like a pretty hard challenge.
For instance the article focuses on teen suicide rate raising with the uptake of modern smartphones, but of course there’s other peaks in the past, especially for males between 1980 and 1995 for instance.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6630a6.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6630a6.htm
Did these specific boys have it worse at that time ? I genuinely have no idea how we’d evaluate that, I wouldn’t be checking how much money they had to judge that, and it would be probably tough to compare to girls today.