Just to be a contrarian, I’m doing OK.

• don’t hate my job and make very decent money, pretty stable financially

• have a lovely wife and two healthy young kids

• decent apartment with plans for an energy positive house as the kids are growing

• fun family friendly car, cool gadgets at home, lots of toys to play with, endless entertainment online

• AI is making lots of tasks easier, will only get better

• robots and machines making home tasks easier as well

• live in a country with an acceptable government (that I didn’t vote for, but am OK with), universal Healthcare and strong social safety net

• medicine constantly improving

• china installing solar panels like maniacs, rapidly getting cheaper and more ubiquitous

• Middle East is as fucked as ever, nothing I can do about it

• Russia is always invading neighbors, and this time at least they got a fucking punch in the face

I’ve been much worse in the past.