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I'm going to go out on a limb and say something that I "feel" is plausibly true, but I don't have any data to back it up. While life has been objectively harder
by lumost 3y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and say something that I "feel" is plausibly true, but I don't have any data to back it up. While life has been objectively harder in the recent past (prior 80 years), life is subjectively difficult today in a way that it wasn't for the past 200 years.
Folks often start out heavily in debt, then they must work competitive jobs which grow more competitive over time to tread water. The combination of sleep debt, social isolation, and general anxiety of going bust is a subjective difficulty which belies the relative comfort of modern life.
This is born out at least partially in the data where "occupational burnout" affects some 65% of employees in the last year.
https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/employee-burnout-2023-productivity-impact/703429/#:~:text=Although%20employee%20burnout%20is%20decreasing,negatively%20affecting%20their%20job%20performance.&text=About%2065%25%20of%20employees%20said,year%2C%20according%20to%20a%20Dec https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/employee-burnout-2023-p....
- vidarh 3y agoMaybe for some, but most people don't get college degrees, for example. Most people worked heavily competitive jobs from an earlier age before, and often far harsher work. E.g. my grandmothers half brother worked in New York Harbour from he was 9. Most of her uncles and aunts worked from early teens, and often moved from home at that age because their parents couldn't afford to keep providing for them and needed them to get employment. Often in backbreaking work that ruined their bodies, and in some cases killed them young. People might well have a subjective experience that they have it tough, but if so we're failing in teaching people history.