Nothin gainst you op, but i fucking hate this shit.

First off: Bettridge’s Law of Headlines means the article won’t answer the question which always malds the fuck out of me. I can feel my hair itchin already.

Second:

small shifts in beliefs and behaviors that could help.

Here we go with the victim blaming again. These articles are always the same:

It’s not our soul crushing society that’s to blame, dear smart and mature reader; that’s ludicrous. Let us adults discuss the young people and how they need an attitude adjustment to better fit this world as we, the mature, have done. Let’s talk to some “experts”, as if we couldn’t just interview gen Z directly! (Cant trust kiddos to know what’s best for them)

But maybe I’m wrong! Time to dive in and see.

the decline in young adult well-being has coincided with two large trends. The first is a rise in economic inequality, which has left millions of young people in a state of relative precarity.

Well, no shit. not having money to go out and blow off steam makes life a sad and empty thing. Glad the article is gonna talk bout real shit! Maybe i was wrong! Let’s keep reading!

The second is a media ecosystem—both social and legacy—that inundates us with negative information.

Oh. Oh no. This is the actual focus huh? Tell young people to ignore a “media ecosystem” of “negative information”? Uh, excuse me while I

<gestures broadly>

There’s a lot of real scary shit out there homie, shit happening right now, and you want them/us to just… ignore it? This ass is actually implying we’re imagining things are worse than they are? Telling young people and the reader to put blinders on? Go out n have some fun?

This article boils down to a meme

Fuck off Skinner