问HN：如果科技对世界如此有益，为什么我们的幸福感却在下降？
人们的幸福感正在下降，而不是上升。自互联网时代开始以来，所有有意义的指标都反映了同样的趋势——自我报告的幸福水平、心理健康药物的处方率、各年龄段的自杀率、自我报告的亲密关系数量、出生率。任何可以作为衡量人们是否享受生活的指标，要么停滞不前，要么在下降。
当然，简单地说技术是所有这些不幸福的根源并不那么简单，但可以明确的是，至少技术没有做足够的工作来抵消这种趋势。如果技术不是原因，那又是什么呢？一代半的世界上最聪明的人致力于拓展可能性的边界，而人们的幸福感却比起初时更低。这对科技行业来说是一个巨大的指控。到底发生了什么？
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People are becoming less, not more, happy. Since the internet era began, every meaningful metric reflects this same picture - self reported happiness levels, mental health medication prescription rates, suicide rates at all ages, number of self reported close relationships, birth rates. Anything you can think of as a proxy for whether people are enjoying life is either stagnant or down.<p>Of course it's not as simple as saying technology is the cause of all of this unhappiness, but what is clear is that, at minimum, technology is not doing enough to counteract it. And if the technology isn't the cause, then what is it? A generation and a half of some of the smartest people in the world working on expanding the boundaries of what is possible and people are less happy than they were when it started. This is a huge indictment of the tech industry. What happened?