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Comment on Depression has tripled in the last 15 years. Arthur Brooks about the causeparent

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Turns out when people can't afford kids, healthcare, housing they are unhappy.

Usually it's rich people who are puzzled as to why others are unhappy.

It’s in quite literally the opposite? That depression and anxiety are rampant in rich communities, cultures, and countries?

Yes. Those counties are the most expensive, hence, the owning a House and having Kids because an unbearable expense for the (relatively) poor.

*while being unemployed or having the threat of unemployment 24x7

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