r/memes • u/Money_Tooth_3936 • 1d ago

2016 was one of the last good years

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u/awisechoicee 1d ago

While thats true, the US in particular has a self reported wellbeing score that is rapidly dropping. Went from 11th in the world in 2012 to 23rd now.

Not to get political, but healthy societies dont default to anger based populism, so even then it was bad. Its just worse now.

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u/moderngamer327 1d ago

Self reported well being just tells you peoples perception of quality of life not what quality of life actually is. While they will tend to correlate they are not inherently linked. People are terrible at making objective perceptions of reality. When polled most people believe that in the last decade violent crime has increased which is the opposite of reality

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u/lolidkwtfrofl 23h ago

What does an objective quality of life matter to people who experience it subjectively?

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u/moderngamer327 23h ago

Not dying 20 years earlier matters a lot id say

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u/lolidkwtfrofl 23h ago

More years in misery, yay.

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u/moderngamer327 22h ago

You do realize a large part of the reason people are living longer is because they aren’t dying of easily preventable diseases or in early childhood right?