A short YouTube monologue arguing that people under 35 are experiencing declines in happiness driven by social trends: falling religious affiliation, rising loneliness, declining marriage and birth rates, loss of vocational purpose, and growing hostility to free enterprise. The speaker presents these social shifts as the key levers to address for increasing individual and societal happiness.
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It turns out that when it comes to happiness, we're almost literally in a world of hurt. Look around. What will you see for people under 35 today? A decline in faith. The year I was born in the United States, 1% had no religious affiliation. Today it's 34%. Look around. People are saying they're lonelier than they've ever been. They're walking away from marriage. They're not having children, they don't have a vocational sense of their work, and they're turning against the free enterprise system. Those are the stakes. If we want to be happier people and we want to live in a happier society, those are the things to fight for. If you pay attention to these things in your life, you will get happier.
