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We're Unhappy, and We Know Why

Drinking alone in the age of the immersive Internet

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Samuel D. James
Jun 03, 2021
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The more I talk to people my age, and the more I read from others of my generation, the more I think a fair share of us are pretty miserable. Millennials, more than their Gen-X older cousins and even more than their Gen-Z younger siblings, seem generally unhappy and generally unable to conceal it. I don’t know that I would describe it as an ambient sadn…

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