I go to real life protests for both climate change and for better housing policy in the U.S. so I’m hardly someone who believes there are no problems.

And I’m also not a homeowner.

But the idea that someone, anyone, living in Australia has a worse outlook in life than 99% of humanity is absolutely not true.

But I have seen enough of that in person here as well, so I’m not questioning either the actual feeling or the validity of the feeling.

However, something appears to have changed where younger folks in a certain set of circumstances feel despair when someone of the same age under similar circumstances even a decade ago might not have felt that way.

I have to believe social media and the expectations it creates but also the way it bombards young people with issues that they can do nothing about today has some responsibility here.