Every year, Gallup checks the country’s temperature on well-being. The rating for “thriving” in 2023 was the lowest following only the years of the Great Recession and Covid-19 outbreak, according to the report.
Kinda just what happens when problems are allowed to languish for a couple decades or so. Obama tried, he took a real crack at health care for instance, which is one of the biggest. Everything pretty quickly unravelled though.
Maybe because the planet is dying and the vast majority of us are treated as disposable cogs in the capitalism machine.
But guys I thought wages were at an all time high and unemployment was the lowest its ever been??
Economic growth is not always an indicator of happiness:
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23862090/subjective-wellbeing-wealth-philanthropy-gdp-happiness-givewell
Thriving? More like grinding