wait, is your point that there is some mystery about what happened to make the US even less happy? ... what didn't happen? It's hard to think of anything good that has happened in the last few years. Every month is scarier and more uncertain than the last.

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snickerbockers a day ago | parent [-]

i mean specifically between '23 and '24, i don't remember much happening on the national level then. COVID's been in the background for a few years and trump hasn't been re-elected yet.

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ajkjk 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That was when the economy got more horrible for everyone that's not rich

	▲	snickerbockers 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		dude that's every year. I am specifically referring to something which did not happen between '22 and '23 but did happen between '23 and '24. I don't know if you actually bothered to read the article in the OP but there's a graph showing a major inflection point.