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We have so much more than our forebears. But I remember the study that found 10x increase in depression since 30s in US.

People who are constantly scared of losing their jobs, of bad health, for their kids, of violence, of where the next meal comes from, etc...

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Good point. Which seems to go against the earlier point of Maslow, though. The exact source of stress is the anticipation of unmet needs...

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Or of ongoing threat, which is almost the same thing but not quite. Need $$, boss is unreliable, must grovel. People bend and crack.

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Looking at people who first lived under a despotic regime, then got neoliberalism (Czech R., Poland), most are completely broken.