re: We are all addicts: Today's Youth Are Depressed, Here's Why...

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Why is it that society becomes more suicidal and depressed when life is at it's easiest?

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because working, improving, and mastery are the keys to happiness (there is research on this now)

that requires conflict, struggle, and perseverance. that's why mastery is so rewarding in the end

when we have it easy, we become lazy, soft, and give up easily and move on. in an abundant society, literally anything is possible for its population, because we don't have to devote our resources to fulfilling our basic necessities. this allows the ability for leisure, education, personal development, moral development, etc. when we are taught that competition doesn't matter, winning doesn't matter, and quitting is just as valuable as continuing, we never actually master anything. instead of being this liberating exercise where we're not bound to the societal demands of success, it's a trap of frustration. we never reach mastery. we never overcome struggle. we're constantly frustrated by being paralyzed towards improving ourselves.

it's very easy to get lost in this paradigm and feel like you're a constant failure