50 or 100 years ago a person might have flat out starved in the street, or died of an illness that no money could buy a cure for at the time. Modern life cause

50 or 100 years ago a person might have flat out starved in the street, or died of an illness that no money could buy a cure for at the time. Modern life causes more depression because basic necessities of life are too easy (on a historcal scale) and so our brains are too idle most of the time, so they get caught on logic bugs.