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Old 04-30-2025, 01:59 PM   #2186
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Thought i would include this here,

Are you flourishing? Many young adults aren't, new study suggests

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/flour...ults-1.7522139

Interesting study showing younger people rating lower on the "flourishing" scale compared to older individuals in high income countries (Canada was not apart of the study)

Probably not unexpected, and some of that is always the case - older, more money, more financial freedom, etc. Plus the addition of social media and the problems that has shown. (it should also be prefaced that, even in the US, individuals reported 6.4/10 which isn't that low)

However, an interesting point in the study appears to be what is lagging among young people:

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"Interestingly, high-income societies were doing well on what we would call happiness, but on purpose and meaning we were doing really poorly," Kim said.

Kim says researchers have, in general, been thinking about how the breakdown of social structures like unions, clubs and religious organizations — places people previously gathered beyond just home and work — affects whether people flourish. The loss of such opportunities increases loneliness and threatens purpose and meaning, he says.
So happiness is good; but a sense of meaning and purpose are down. Certainly something we don't necessarily track on a government level but COVID certainly showed cracks in this issue.

If anyone hasn't read it yet, i always recommend Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone" about the decline of civil groups and its effect on our society.
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