I would like to see data too, but any data would be attacked, or politicized.<p>I couldn&#x27;t agree more with the OP.  Jobs are hard to get.  Even chit jobs are not the chit, I grew up with.  They are just Terrible.  Even immigrants are leaving them.  Unions are declining for numerious reasons.  Realeste will be unobtainable for many of us.  To top it off--we are being regulated, and fined like no other generation I can remember.
Banks, landlords, schools, employers are taking every cent they can from us.  Police are basically revenue collectors in my neighborhood.  I don&#x27;t see people out socializing at night.  They safely go to the coffee shop, and just go home.
Let&#x27;s go fishing--no, the oceans gave been decimated.  Let&#x27;s go for a drive--well there&#x27;s global warming.  Let&#x27;s just have sex, well some us still do that, but it&#x27;s so clinical, and in the back of my mind, &quot;Do I really want a kid from this person who&#x27;s still trying to live up to the standards his&#x2F;her mother&#x27;s, mother grew up in?&quot;  (In that last sentence, you can reverse mother&#x2F;father, and the meaning is the same.)
Do I trust my fellow man in business, and moral issues; not like I used to.  It&#x27;s just too cut throat, and I have seen people do horrid things to their brother in order to get ahead financially.<p>So no, I don&#x27;t see a lot of happy people.<p>As to the &quot;good stuff&quot;.  We don&#x27;t have a draft.  We have access to cheap stuff made in China.  Cars are supposedly a bit safer, but I&#x27;ll take a older vehicle that I can work on over a proprietary computer on wheels. They figured out the genome, but I trust my doctor less than I ever did before.<p>I ran out--honestly.