The number of young people with no close friends has increased five-fold since 2014Gen Z are more isolated, more distressed and less productive than previo
  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
    10·
    5 days ago

    expensive rents and unaffordable house prices.

    Fix this, and I bet a lot of the other issues will improve considerably.

    • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      Yeah, this also feels to me like the main solvable thing: build lots of housing, preferably social, preferably where young people want to live.

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      Exactly. There is too much focus on getting enough to survive that no one can live. And any place that people can meet now costs money. Money that goes to everything else. No one can afford to be friendly.

  • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    5 days ago

    5% up from 1%.

    The confidence intervals on these percentages are, unsurprisingly, pretty broad, so describing this as a five-fold increase is dodgy. You can see more on p11 of the full report where the earlier figure could have been as much as 1.6% and the later figure as little as 3.5%, which would be a little over a two-fold increase. That increase is what we can be confident of.

    The trend is not in doubt and is concerning, but let’s not reproduce shitty statistics.