Why are Americans so unhappy? High costs create dissatisfaction in the US despite positive economic news during the Biden administration according to Robert Reich. Reich was the former Democratic Labor Secretary in the United States Expensive housing, food prices and child care Despite positive economic indications, including growth of 3.3 percent in the last quarter of 2023 and an unemployment rate of 3.7 percent,…
Month: January 2024
Everyone works differently – an asset to humanity
Throughout history, humanity has proven to be a neurodiverse species, where brains work in different ways. This is not an accident, but can be a survival advantage. In difficult situations, people become more flexible when different ways of thinking and perspectives meet each other. Evolutionarily speaking, the diversity in how people's cognitive apparatus works has been an asset. The collective strength lies…
Physical meeting places that create positive emotions make sense
Our society's bourgeois line of work limits the social freedom of movement of those who lack paid work and are not old-age pensioners. At the same time, working life is so inhumane that people lose their ethics there. At the same time, people have very little energy left for organized activity after work. As Durkheim wrote, we become human in the encounter with other human beings. But about these meetings…