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Bonus: Turn your phone's display to monochrome mode. Force it to become less visually stimulating to our monkey brain.

South Korea has had the highest suicide rate in the industrialized world for eight consecutive years. Their culture doesn't glorify/promote individualism, but conformity.

I would argue that "chasing money and success" is a trademark characteristic of what young people AREN'T doing, yet this study states they are the Loneliness age group.

Not necessarily untrue. TV+Internet is cheaper for me with my status as a current customer with Verizon FiOS.

So we should expect less technological inventions, less creative solutions from this generation of the Japanese? I believe high Conscientiousness combined with high levels of Neuroticism is a common/promoted personality type over there.

So we're stuck with Russians, Nazis, and fictional -Stan countries. We've already reached that point in the video game industry.

That or they're jealous.

For elaboration on how cognitive bias causes people to interpret the facts in different ways, I always recommend:

http://blog.dilbert.com/2017/08/17/how-to-know-youre-in-a-ma...

Bread & Circus or we riot. Pragmatically.

I'm curious to how relative wealth (in regards to income inequality) impacts ones Standard of Living. After the bare necessities are acquired, is all 'standard of being' relative to how you perceive your place in reality?

Really? I lost interest between a gratuitous comma and needless metaphor.

The wider your talent stack (writing, marketing, webdev, etc.), the luckier you'll be.

Does empathy seem to thrive in smaller, homogeneous communities(ex. Japan, Nordic countries)?

Exploiting cheap labor under the guise of free trade is a good start.

Bingo, it is all about culture and identity (Japan). Often used argument arguing against immigration.

Everyone works 7:30 - 3:30 in my metro area in an attempt to beat rush hour. 11am (listed as the most productive hour in this article) is when folks start eating lunch.

Imagine how this could be misused to start wars-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIvvHwFSZHs

Switzerland did wonders for Kim Jong Un.

There's no way such easy access to prescription drugs could ever go wrong.

Ripple is the vehicle the Central Banks use to influence crypto. It's meteoric rise is premeditated.

lmao You guys are a riot.

Are there statistics on Homeless -> Employed figures?

I haven't been following articles on her. Has Disney scrubbed all the drug abuse from her past?

Sitting down to use the internet in 1995-2007 took a certain kind of personality. It was an act that required isolating yourself for long periods of time.

"Normies" are very unconcerned, easily distracted, and quickly trusting of Big Apps.

The internet culture shifted in 2007, with the release of the iPhone. Libertarian conversation died with the living room desktop.

Well, it'll de-calcify the bromide/chloride around your pineal gland.

Have you thought about taking upon more responsibility? Be it to your community, to a volunteer organization, pets, and even plants. Modern society is malnourished when it comes to the sense of belonging.

“The higher degree of responsibility that you agree voluntarily to try to bear the richer your life will be.” -Jordan Peterson

2016, the pendulum started to swing the other way.

These people sound a lot more like normies than the NEETs in /biz/.

What about all the other enormously rich families that don't have the spotlight shined on them to hold them to a higher standard?

The fact that HN is just discovering Coinbase (Normiebase) and not discussing the in's and out's of Etherdelta tells me this bubble still has a far way to go before it bursts.