I feel like this is looking for a cultural explanation to a feeling, which might actually be systemic. It's much harder to have fun when you struggle paying fo

I feel like this is looking for a cultural explanation to a feeling, which might actually be systemic. It's much harder to have fun when you struggle paying for food and lodging, and that's what results from decades of inflation greater than salary progression, and concentration of property. I also doubt if people really had more fun in the past¹. Listening to my parents it feels like there was much less questioning of the systemic BS, but also they're nostalgic for something that I doubt existed, or they remember correctly. 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection