It is perversely true that being bored in an incredible economy will bring more mental health problems than almost-starving in a Communist one.
Things like gratitude are really tough - I'm unhappy that a shop doesn't have the exact thing I like, whereas undernourished comrades in Communist Russia had to queue for bread for hours, and might feel gratitude if on one day they only have to queue for one hour. What you're used to radically changes how you feel about a situation.
Commie states don't report mental healh issues. They sweep the problem under the rug, institutionalize the patients and then the caretakers make sure to abuse them and steal their food.
Read your text again, skip all the whataboutism about communism and tell me whats left.
The cognitive ability to reason about large scale problems is also in decline, in a society that sees no alternative, like whatabout socialism. Could you tell?
If tou cannot adress the problem, maybe you are part of it!
Also, "perversly true to be bored in an imcredible economy"? Sounds like GDP is more important than happiness to you. Maybe take your time and rethink that in the light of sociatal contracts and mortality too.
Things like gratitude are really tough - I'm unhappy that a shop doesn't have the exact thing I like, whereas undernourished comrades in Communist Russia had to queue for bread for hours, and might feel gratitude if on one day they only have to queue for one hour. What you're used to radically changes how you feel about a situation.
It's tricky, but it's also not.