>If you look at actual data there are huge losses in quality of life, some having continued for decades Mortality has decreased https://ourworldindata.org/chil

>If you look at actual data there are huge losses in quality of life, some having continued for decades Mortality has decreased https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past >All of these stats are at all time highs/lows. First, that statement is incorrect. I'll post historical data: >Over the last five years about 20% of high school students have reported thoughts of suicide. Suicide rates have been nearly flat for 70+ years: https://www.statista.com/statistics/187478/death-rate-from-suicide-in-the-us-by-gender-since-1950/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/187478/death-rate-from-s... Thoughts of suicide match - not an all time high https://www.childtrends.org/publications/teen-suicide-databank-indicator https://www.childtrends.org/publications/teen-suicide-databa... >Today roughly one in six youths is obese. Are you claiming this is the fault of tech too? >10% of all American teens are prescribed some psychiatric medication. Is the the fault of tech or that more people get diagnosed? Before glasses were invented, 0% of people had them. >do you actually have data on happiness and well-being over 'all of history' We certainly do on mortality - and that's improved vastly over the past 100 years, mostly due to tech increases. >This pattern you're talking about doesn't exist. I just gave evidence it does exist. A living teen is better than a dead child. Teens also are happier in general than in the 1990s : https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/the-sad-state-of-happiness-in-the-united-states-and-the-role-of-digital-media/ https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/the-sad-state-of-happi... And that report points out the correlation between general teen happiness and various internet uses is ~ -0.1, which is pretty weak, with plenty of citations of research backing it up. >Today people from all age groups report fewer social connections than in any prior decade "there is no evidence that self-reported loneliness is increasing over time" https://ourworldindata.org/social-connections-and-loneliness https://ourworldindata.org/social-connections-and-loneliness So you can cherry pick all the ills you want, blame them on whatever current boogey man there is, but that same argument has been used for all the things I mentioned above. The correlations, and certainly the causes, are no where near as clear in the research data on these topics.