Canadians under 30 "very unhappy," World Happiness Report finds

The kids are not OK in Canada - that's what the World Happiness Report found with the survey of people from more than 140 countries, which looked at overall satisfaction among different age groups for the first time.
The report found those under 30 in Canada ranked happiness much lower than those aged 60 and older, with the former putting the country at about 58th place. Those in the latter group placed Canada at number eight.
Nivrita Ganguly reports on why researchers say Canada has dropped to 15th place overall, what could be making youth "very unhappy," and why Finland remains number one.
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[@MC_Hammerpants_]

So are the over 30s

[@MikeyPaper]

Im 30 years old right now, and Im doing okay.

[@nicksmith9]

If you are over 30 and struggling that's on you. Pull yourself up

[@aavvcc]

She mentioned millennials in her report as well

[@MC_Hammerpants_]

@@aavvcc that’s nice

[@clintrose4217]

Canada needs an election.

[@coolioso808]

Oh yeah, because elections have historically worked in changing the unsustainable, exploitative market economy were a living through, right? Give me a break! Go deeper, do some real research. Check out Empire Files with Abby Martin, Dangerous Ideas with Lee Camp, TZMOfficialChannel with Peter Joseph. Get out of the funk of status quo propaganda. We need system change. Bad politicians are just expected negative symptoms of a cancerous system of Late Stage Capitalism. Nordic countries are just ahead of the collapse a little more with stronger social programs, but they aren't big enough to change the world, especially if the base market system goes unchallenged. We can try a new approach in Canada: One Small Town Contributionism. Voluntary and free for communities to be co-operative places of abundance and prosperity. But if you want to be scared of everything new without researching it, go ahead and keep banging your head against the political wall and hoping that'll solve anything.

[@bobowon5450]

we live in an economy where even 2 people together struggle to rent a 1 bedroom. Where extremely expensive life ruining debt is required to get the kind of education that affords you minimum wage. Then we're told that since the internet is cheap we should be happy when most of us would probably trade it even a glimpse of meaning in our lives.

[@garettdoornwaard4822]

Or you can take no loans and go learn to be a plumber or an electrician so you can make 50+ dollars an hour. Get a job where the skills demand a good wage, not whatever is paying minimum wage for your "degree".

[@bobowon5450]

@garettdoornwaard4822 unfortunately the trades really don't make what they used to. Electricians in nova scotia start at minimum wage too. And you'd hope after a few years you'd be making more but it seems like every time an older electrician retires the new ones who take their place earn half what the old guy used to

[@firstandforemost87]

@@garettdoornwaard4822 Most trades guys aren’t making that much unless they are working camp jobs and the like, and then you never know when you’ll have work and when you won’t. I work somewhere where they are paid close to that though, and it is brutally competitive to get in w them, even w all the turnover and retirements. My Gen Z buddy is trying to become a welder. It all pays garbage unless he gets on w the union, and he has been fighting to become a boilermaker union member for years. He doesn’t know if it is worth it unless he can get on w the union. A red seal welder just joined us at work to be a labourer because that pays better and has more security than he had welding full time. It isn’t as black and white as you make it sound, and trades programs are full up, so w everybody figuring out that uni isn’t worth it, you can bet wages in trades will start falling as well as everybody and their dog tries to get in there.

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

If you struggling in a 2 income household you need to learn to budget better.

[@bobowon5450]

@@theflowpowa42oshow you can only budget so efficiently before you have to accept that the cost of living is just more expensive now.

[@ParkdalePete]

This country is feeling like a scam. The young people today are going to be the most cut throat adults in the future because of what this country is putting them through. If it continues to get worse i feel bad for what they face coming from the generation after that.

[@Anonymous_Whisper]

That generation is my generation. The only thing coming now is sad sorry blobs ... Or as I see now kids you can't tell if they boy or girl. Just weird grey Aliens might as well be at this point. They don't seem to care about anything and have no ambition

[@Anonymous_Whisper]

@@nahbro3240 what lol 😂 nah you cap. The immigrants act their gender lol 😂. I haven't seen a white person on a campus in like year. And he was looking around with his mouth open. Lol when you see another person born in your country there your like ohhh hey ...yeah I remember we in Canada. Happy to see another person trying to make eye contact wave and smile.

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

you want some cheese to go with that whine?

[@coolioso808]

The entire global monetary-market economic system IS structurally set up as a scam, a Ponzi scheme. It's Monopoly played out in real life. Not sustainable or just in any meaningful way. The Cancer Stage of Capitalism is where we are now. Where do we want to go from here? Status quo train will take us to a future Culture in Decline (as Peter Joseph's webseries has gone over). But through truth sharing and socio-economic system change, starting in our own communities, we can be the change we wish to see in the world and be greater, together. It's possible. Tools for change include One Small Town Contributionism, Moneyless Society, TZM and great books and authors like Richard Wolff and Marcia Nozick with the little-known, but still relevant "No Place Like Home: Building Sustainable Communities."

[@JSRTales]

over 30 also in canada very stressed unless you own multiple homes 😢😢😢

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

Yeh because coming back to find your rental property has over 10k in holes punched in the walls and a flooded basement isn't stressful.

[@Athulryes]

​@@theflowpowa42oshow Fixing holes in walls is easy if that's all you have to do lol.

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

there will be plenty for you too do in fantasy land lil man @@Athulryes

[@Athulryes]

@@theflowpowa42oshow What does that even mean?

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

You will find out when you move out your parents basement. @@Athulryes

[@janesmith1398]

The entire country is unhappy.

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

Speak for yourself lil man

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

@Rocksteady246 haters gonna hate lil man

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

@Rocksteady246 copers gonna cope

[@coolioso808]

Monetary-market capitalism is a socially, economically and ecologically unjust, unsustainable and unhealthy system. What do you expect in Late Stage Capitalism? It's a Culture in Decline (series by Peter Joseph of the same name, from 2013 - why is it still super relevant? Because we haven't changed our social system yet). We need system change and it starts at home, in our communities. Those which work together can overcome the odds if we have purpose, strategy and strong co-operation and co-ownership methods in place. With One Small Town Contributionism, that provides an outlet for many of us.

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

I don't know about all that I'm just over here trying to cope. @@coolioso808

[@chrthewrestler2301]

JUST AFTER 30? EVERYONE ABOVE 30 IS SAD TOO...

[@coolioso808]

Indeed, many above 30 are sad and unhappy with where life is going, too. But I suspect the big divide in 'happiness' reporting by the older folks is because there is much more chance that someone 60 and older in Canada has been able to afford a home, have a steady job, with a pension, pay off all or most of their debts, travel, rest, relax and be more autonomous in what they choose to do each day. With anybody 30 or younger the mountain is EXTREMELY high and treacherous, almost no hope for the future UNLESS they know about a viable new system that they could contribute to that would support them and their community. That is now possible with One Small Town organization, based on the principles of Ubuntu Contributionism, a book by scientists and researcher Michael Tellinger.

[@kyungshim6483]

I wonder if the person at helm has something to do with it.

[@ting280]

the adults don't seem to be doing well either. everyone has to go on strike just to get paid properly.

[@JA-mq9ti]

I am 34, I have only been able to find gigs…now my contract is up…I am unemployed and renting a crappy condo for over 2gs…no thought of a future/family…what life is this…

[@icankillbugs]

Get a job, buy a house, and get a wife.

[@coolioso808]

How about getting informed and involved in some way with One Small Town Contributionism? Based on the principles of Ubuntu Contributionism, everybody in a community has value and it doesn't require long, back-breaking hours. It requires community unity. We've been going about so-called 'economics' the entirely wrong way for decades! It's like a person having a cancerous tumour and the doctors notice it early and tell the patient but the patient doesn't ask for the tumour to be cut out or treated, just treat the symptoms. Well, what happens? Symptoms get worse and worse and eventually a great demise will occur. We need to treat our market system as the cancer it is. Cut it out by creating a better, viable system to operate in.

[@892303001]

"YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY, by the year 2030." That under 30 will change

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

If I can do it anyone can do it lil man.

[@Eric-lx8hp]

Here’s a fun fact Average home prices have more than doubled since 1990s whereas median income levels have increased less than 1% in that time

[@sergeikhripun]

But guess what, Canada went from 20 billionaires to over 100. Mystery solved.

[@icankillbugs]

​@@sergeikhripunBillionaires who don't know you exist aren't responsible for the price of a single family home in a town of 2,000 people increasing by 50K in five years.

[@coolioso808]

Late Stage Capitalism isn't pretty. What did you expect? It's like Late Stage playing the game of Monopoly. It's one player with all the money and power, while everybody else is on the brink of bankruptcy. But AT LEAST in the game of Monopoly everybody gets money when they pass go, but real life market economics can't even do that in most countries. The game sucks. We need a new game. A cooperative egalitarian game for the people, by the people. Not a corporate Hellscape of capitalism. It's time to understand this problem and seek solutions: See Zeitgeist: Requiem. It's very instructive. Caution: Some may not be ready for this level of brutal honesty and truth. So be warned. If you still want to place all the blame on politicians (as bad as they are) then you can, but you'll be beating your head against the wall and getting a headache for no good reason.

[@Arcamea]

I'm 31 and I am not happy with life. Its very hard to be happy when the general outlook on life compared to 10+ years ago was thriving. Now it just seems like barely "surviving". I'm not looking forward to what life will be like by 2034...

[@archie_bunker]

Keep voting liberal lol

[@coolioso808]

Have you looked at the One Small Town community development strategy based on cooperation, co-ownership and collaboration? It's based on the principles of Ubuntu Contributionism, a book by Michael Tellinger, which means "unity within community" and is rapidly developing in towns around the world - of course, under the radar of the mainstream news - who know we need system change if we hope to have a sustainable future to live in and look forward to. There a very few sound strategies for people to grasp at this point, so even one good one is a breath of fresh air. Read the first page of the website for One Small Town. Any questions? How could this improve your community in 2 years? In 5? In 10?

[@alonelypanda1]

The saddest place in the world is my bedroom

[@user-dl7um5eq2z]

But they have an option in Canada! It's called MAID!

[@CHodgy]

Or if you're under 18 just change gender. They are always happier after, arent them?

[@unrealshrimp]

​@@CHodgyyes you can pause your puberty and resume it whenever you'd like just like an iPod

[@icankillbugs]

​@@unrealshrimpiPods can pause puberty?

[@unrealshrimp]

@@icankillbugs no, your government can, and trust them, you are in their best interest

[@icankillbugs]

@@unrealshrimp what does that have to do with iPods though?

[@menacexp]

Canadians over 30 also unhappy

[@simoncaron6424]

My grandmother bought both of her children houses. I know I won’t inherit anything.

[@SaHlGood]

UNDER 30 over it doesn’t matter nobody’s happy unless you have 1 million at your disposal or mommy and daddy have your trust fund for you or your life planned out with a nice cosy job at some Gucci firm of your dad‘s friend or something or a nice fat, paid for education it’s nice when real life is paid for you, so you can focus on your education or your future must be nice

[@bobwoods1302]

🥲🥲🥲😂

[@SaHlGood]

@@bobwoods1302bob worked his daddy hard for the life he gave him self

[@bobwoods1302]

Poor you 🥲🥲😂@@SaHlGood

[@NsIX3]

Is this a surprise? Look at who's running this country into the ground....🤡

[@coolioso808]

Yeah, Late Stage Capitalism ain't pretty, bud, what did you think was going to happen? Any PM who doesn't have a clue about how toxic and unsustainable market economics is will struggle to fix even a leaky faucet let alone a national economy. Change comes from the community level up. Any meaningful, real cooperative social change, that is. So why not focus on that? Get educated and share it. "A Cure for Capitalism (not for dummies)" by World Beyond Capitalism is instructive. One Small Town organization, based on the principles of Ubuntu Contributionism is a guide and platform for community system change. Free and voluntary, but cooperative, collaborative and based in co-ownership so we the people actually benefit the most, not just an elite billionaire class and their six-figure salary politician friends.

[@funkopopssmoked]

Under 30 I'm 36 and never will own a home pretty sure I'm not happy either and I blame the current govenment with no doubt

[@icankillbugs]

Not with that attitude 😂

[@patrickcowan8701]

Wonder why. We have failed our youth in search of personal gain and instant gratification.

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

What have you been doing for the youth lately Patrick?

[@dees9478]

@@theflowpowa42oshow I teach young people in college (17-19), and Patrick is 100% right. We've screwed the younger generations because of our political apathy, always passing the buck (i.e. pollution, worse this - worse that, etc..) down the line while (some of us) lined our pockets and the rest just took the envelope and shut the hell up.

[@coolioso808]

@@dees9478 "We" didn't recognize the system change that was needed, but was explained to us by great thinkers who often go vastly under appreciated like R. Buckminster Fuller, Jacque Fresco, Stafford Beer, Donella Meadows and more modern minds like Michael Tellinger, Matthew Holten and Peter Joseph. There is a great book by Canadian, Marcia Nozick, published in 1992, called "No Place Like Home: Building Sustainable Communities" extremely important and relevant still to this day. The problems of global capitalism and megacorporations she alludes to is just worse, not better. We didn't take those warning seriously and put them into practice in communities. Now, that's in the past, we didn't do it. But now, if we are still alive today, we can do something. We can learn from the past so we don't repeat the same mistakes. The older generation can help, the younger generation can help. But we need clarity of direction, and that needs to be rooted in system change. Market capitalism isn't a viable system. Not in any social, economic or ecological way. To change the system we need to start at home. But we can "Think globally and act locally." We can have a global awareness but then focus on home and what we can do cooperatively. That's why I love the One Small Town organization. A free and voluntary community building strategy that is for one and all. For the people, by the people. A bottom-up strategy. Not a force-fed top-down political strategy like we are so fed up with seeing at our Federal politics. It's time for change, so let's be that change - together!

[@jakobwild5886]

Those 40 and over arent having the wildest time either

[@daniel_trang]

Ranking 15 out of 140 is still pretty good

[@winstonsmith935]

The problem with Canada TRUDEAU

[@esparda07]

Who would have thunk?

[@josephsmith594]

They need to get off their phones.

[@TheGreatWhiteNope]

Canada is my unhappiness 😔

[@mathias8627]

Every country in the top places to live has a basic income and housing first strategy... Hmm I wonder what we could do to becomr happier

[@tyrel7185]

In other news: justin turdope is their prime minister… 🇨🇦

[@steveharrigan7811]

Being Canadian and owning nice things cant live on the same page.......Been that way for a while.......When you have to decide between cheaper ramen, and the one thats $.35 more, but tastes better.......Yeah, there are some exceptions, but thats pretty much where Canadians are at present...

[@Dstinct]

The Scandinavian countries have nationalized their natural resources, and they are heavily taxed. So we can just get Alberta and Quebec to pass over their resource industries, and we can all pay more taxes so the poorer people have a better standard of living. Everybody on board with this?

[@nancetardiff339]

Quebec had the good sense to nationalize their hydro-electricity

[@jaysun3149]

i believe majority of Millennials first voted back in to the 2015, now pay the price.

[@dsbarclayeng1]

Finland has a high suicide rate and drug addiction rate.

[@carmenlajoie2719]

Why 140 leader's attended BRI Forum for cooperation in Agricultural-Poverty alleviation-STEM Healthcare-Infrastructure Domestic manufacturing in Beijing. CGTN The Point-Hub-Heat, Reporterfy Media-Cyrus Janssen

[@MrKenng123]

If you think life in Canda is bad, Hong Kong is even worse. This Chinese city has been dropping since 2020 began, and now ranks at 86. Surprise isn't it? Given how modernized it is.

[@Revenger3rdUnit]

You're comparing a city to a whole country smh

[@icankillbugs]

Pointless comparison, unless the majority of Canadians are planning a mass exodus to Hong Kong and I just wasn't invited.

[@ItsWheels69]

A score of 6.9. Nice.

[@larrymunn5279]

With a score like that it sounds like a good time to me lol. Last I heard the number 69 was going up to 96, due to inflation the cost of eating out had gone up.

[@johnobstfeld5026]

You mean the ones that voted for the nice hair and a budget that balances itself! Our education system is failing us big time! Math #1 “ you can’t keep spending money you don’t have “ . And as far as a budget that balances itself that’s the stupidest thing anyone has ever said!

[@Athulryes]

I am over 30 and I know lots of 30 year olds not happy. Success doesn't equal happiness either.. Just think about all the nightmares brewing; climate change, microplastics, war, and so much more. If youve checked into reality anytime recently, its easy to get discouraged. The news doesnt help honestly, since controversial topics get the most views.

[@williamjeremiah6637]

Justin Balerina Castro Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh both must go.

[@magallanthepenguin9132]

work more for less. i wouldn't be surprised if the world happiness index, it would be ranked near last. i don't get people who want to be the prime minister when you mess up, everyone gonna blame the guys on top

[@bobwoods1302]

Better than living in Russia.

[@stephenpeppin5537]

Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. Proverbs 16:20 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Matthew 11:28-30

[@augustshades]

so what if we are sad? they dont care. they are replacing us with snworb.

[@lh7325]

I'm surprised Australia is so high

[@lh7325]

@user-nc7cf4sp1r Ha, constant sunshine. It's overcast a good portion of the time in my part.

[@itsmebennyb4286]

Who'd getting quized gor the happiness rankings?

[@icankillbugs]

Who'd getong drunk tehn tiping utoob connenmts?

[@saxonthegermanshepherd2809]

lol, it’s about to get worse, especially those goofy ones who believe that stocking up on toilet paper instead of b…… is going to keep them safe

[@shoobydoobiemauiwowee]

Look up at the night sky and believe our options are endless...each one of us is a universe with massive potential

[@MrWallace484]

Everyone’s broke

[@MK44078]

Im in the county trap still. Moneys finally starting to stack up

[@user-dl7um5eq2z]

Was born in 65 and was never happy in this expensive overtaxed corrupt country!!!

[@chrisministerofsmartarsery3322]

Stop voting liberal NDP. Your life will improve.

[@on2thenextthing]

Truth. Socialism is all dead end for everyone.

[@archie_bunker]

Agreed

[@paskwawi2007]

Well if young Canadians, especially women who naturally lean left, quit voting for Trudeau than we would be able to get rid of him. He and his carbon tax are not making anyone's life easier. Thx! Sincerely older Canadians.

[@sergeikhripun]

Trudeau isn't not left. He is only left to somebody like Joe Rogan who is a $100 millionaire or Jordan Peterson. To them, anybody who is an inch left of Atilla the Hun is a communist. Communists in Russia consider the Canadian Liberal Party a party of sexual minorities who admire Nazis.

[@K.C-2049]

lol boomers literally handed our countries to the right and their corporate buddies and installed a system of neo liberalism which has been eroding social services and the middle class since the 80s/90s, but ok.

[@bign1667]

Australia 😂 seriously?? Who put this together ?

[@TBA-zv9qt]

Because we have the wacko Trudie 😂😂😂

[@derpcommander7367]

Just under 30?

[@1ABNDT]

Just keep voting socialist Liberal & you vill own nothing & bee happy. Ya. 😂🤣

[@shauncameron8390]

Just like the average Cuban and North Korean.

[@martymethuselah]

they discovered diamonds on my land i am happy AF viva rio tinto

[@on2thenextthing]

And who's predominantly on social media? Under 30. Get off social media and get back to reality. Secondly, who you vote for matters. Eight years of liberal and NDP will destroy any country.

[@thisiscanada8632]

Better than uk and usa😢

[@JSRTales]

what did you ever live in usa? y u say usa is unhappy

[@Dstinct]

@@JSRTales didn't read the chart the whole video is about, did you?

[@salvatorevatore5387]

I'll have three jobs to shovel inflation and rents and food....

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

Now that's a man with a plan right there!

[@icankillbugs]

I just have one job that pays enough. Not sure about you, but I'm not 23 years old anymore. I can't be a school janitor all day, deliver pizzas all night, and work on roofs on weekends. 100 hour workweeks are for the birds.

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

you gotta step back from the plate @@icankillbugs

[@markamd1]

English please.

[@dsbarclayeng1]

Of course, there's no future for young people if they don't inherit or can't cut it to be a doctor or lawyer.

[@user-uz1si3fu1i]

Wow

[@FreshLyte]

Oh gee I wonder why? Maybe they're not watching enough Canadian news??

[@specta_horus]

j u m p

[@FreshLyte]

@@specta_horus u first

[@cavink5342]

blame on two trudeaus

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

There are two

[@jonathan99097]

shocker

[@CanadianPranks12]

Yay

[@ProJock]

Canada isn’t even a top 100 country.

[@rogerrabbit8756]

Trudeaus Canada. 🇨🇦

[@ahsrahoar]

Gee! I wonder why that is lol

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

Yeah care to explain lil man?

[@nicksmith9]

Capitalism is the problem as shown. Scandinavian socialist countries who don't have high immigration is the way to go and the HARD data shows it

[@sergeikhripun]

Finland and Sweden have just joined NATO - big mistake.

[@nicksmith9]

@@sergeikhripun big mistake for Russia 😂

[@on2thenextthing]

Completely false.

[@nicksmith9]

@@on2thenextthing it's not. Data is out sheep

[@nicksmith9]

@@on2thenextthing government shill

[@FocusBeDrifting]

u f'd us

[@canadaclub8920]

between catastrophic climate change, and covid and the war in europe messing up supply chains its going to be an uncertain future at best

[@FNWild]

Ingrates. It's an acquired taste.

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

Whats for dinner? Ingrates and its oo so good

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

Just be thankful for what you got

[@rickvervoort9536]

"The question is not whether we keep going on climate action, the question is how much more we can do, and how quickly. Climate action can’t wait"

[@bobowon5450]

honestly even if canada went to 0% emissions, and i'm not talking fake 0% with the scam that is carbon offsets, I mean we drop back to not using any electricity and all going to a vegan diet, the difference would be negligible on the global scale for pollution and climate change.

[@Don-ex5ih]

I am 34 I’m paying my education dept or tax return. I can’t save money 😮

[@Aw89251]

Maybe because Canada is failing. lol.

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

Where are you from lil man?

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

They think they are unhappy now just wait until they turn 30. 🤪😝😘

[@gaetanomagnifico1836]

This what happens when you go from a Democracy to Communism country. Sorry to say it's going to get worse before it gets better but it will get better. Were in the midst of a Spiritual War and God's people are winning. Keep the faith.

[@tillyburton5402]

they all voted for their planet to be taken care by tradereau.