> Around the world, young people have been reporting increasing unhappiness. And Blanchflower believes the advent of smartphones and social media may be largely

> Around the world, young people have been reporting increasing unhappiness. And Blanchflower believes the advent of smartphones and social media may be largely to blame. Maybe Prof. David Blanchflower should start studying trends in the costs of education, housing, child and medical care, etc. since the advent of smartphones and social media? Or how about the career prospects of his own grad students? David is conveniently tenured himself (age 72), at Dartmouth (annual cost of attending >$91k, per Dartmouth's own web site).