Americans are less happy.

[Woodznutz]

Statistically they struggle and end up with zero wealth and work their whole lives. There are always outliers but the statistics are clear.

Only 4% of households with a four-year college degree are in the bottom 50% of wealth, meaning the vast majority of college graduates reside in the top half. Its that stark of a difference.

https://research.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/education-pays-2026-full-report.pdf

It is often said that a college degree is a license to steal. Those stats support this. That said the current batch of grads might change those stats. We also need to track the vocations of college grads over time. Many go into fields that don't require a college education, only a college "degree". Many go into fields that require neither. Statistics are not the deep dive needed to accurately assess the value of a college education.

Everyone in the company I work for has a college degree. None are working in the field they got a degree in. All they are are wall decorations. All (except one) work in the family residential rental business. Four generations of college grads, all millionaires, doing rental real estate, but will be counted as attaining success due to a college education.

 

[Blaster]

Politics has consumed Americans which fosters hate between people. This was a better country when there was less interest in political differences.

 

[1srelluc]

You have DDS. Democrat Derangement Syndrome. I didnt post anything political. The data shows people are less happy. There is a cause. Your sad ass self decided to just insult. Try finding a human friend.

Friends are overrated....They always want you to help them move.....Close acquaintances are much better. You go your way, they go theirs.

 

[HikerGuy83]

I've observed graduate students for decades. Since Covid there has been a change in them. There are less engaging, more solitary, and much less friendly. This article goes a long way explaining this recent phenomenon. Very interesting.

MSN

Thank you for sharing.

 

[JohnDB]

Seriously,

Americans are less happy due to abandonment of hard-wired genetic emotional needs.

First off....Church attendance.
This has really two guilty parties. One is the church itself and the other is the people not going. Regular attendees to church have a much stronger sense of community involvement and more importantly OWNERSHIP of the communities they live in.
Americans pride themselves in the separation of church and state....that was never written in the constitution....it comes from a poorly translated letter of Thomas Jefferson explaining how the Federal government had no grounds to interfere in various State's functions.
All in all this is the first time in history religion and politics are completely separate.
So somehow we are going to have happier societies than how we have done this for literally thousands of years? Re-invent the wheel so it stops being so round?
Let me know when round wheels don't work.

Education is not helping....
Just the reverse. At a certain point of learning educations do more to destroy a society than build it. (Academia argues non-stop)
Plus it destroys normal male/female relationships. Well, puts large roadblocks that prevent them from forming relationships that result in richer, more fulfilled lives with children and extended families.

Jordan Peterson explains.

 

[Woodznutz]

Friends are overrated....They always want you to help them move.....Close acquaintances are much better. You go your way, they go theirs.

We helped a good friend move his family to another city. It didn't work out for him, and he moved again shortly after. I asked him why he didn't call on us for help. He said that he wouldn't put us through that again.