Young People Are Not OK, and It’s Definitely Those Bloody Phones
Actually, no, that’s hardly the whole story
Most young and young-ish people I’ve talked to lately seem to have given up on life.
The hairdresser who cuts my hair. The people I meet at the local leisure centre. The friends that, like me, try to stay afloat but find it harder and harder to do so.
London, where I live, has become near-unliveable for young people in the last couple of years. My brother, who lived in Toronto until recently and now lives in Miami, tells me pretty much the same story.
Unless you either got lucky landing a lucrative and stable job, still have your parents bankrolling your life — you’d be surprised how common this is in certain social circles — or have a wealthy relative who died recently, you likely dread stepping out of your house because you know that might cost you more than you can afford.
To be honest, I’m not even sure I have conversations with fellow Millenials and Gen Z — I’m on the cusp of the two cohorts — that do not involve worries about how things are and how much worse they could get.
According to the latest World Happiness Report, people under 30 in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, and a few other countries in the West are now…
