Why #America is fat and unhappy – #Harvard #psychologist Steven Pinker

47 thoughts on “Why #America is fat and unhappy – #Harvard #psychologist Steven Pinker”

1. Canada does an excellent job of managing a country larger than the US, with only 1/10 the population. While the US denigrates our medical system (which we all agree could use improvement), our costs are about half, per person, and average lifespan is 4-5 years greater. As well, going in for a medical procedure doesn’t mean you lose your house! Can MAGA explain that? We’ve travelled extensively through the US and have witnessed abject poverty and homelessness at a level that we’ve NEVER seen in Canada! How is that possible in the wealthiest country in the world? Can the fuming, angry red ball cap crowd enlighten us?

2. HAIR!!! 😮😮😮

3. Prioritizing cars, electronics and McMansions instead of physical and mental health.

4. Yet more Canadians want to move to US, like Steven Pinker

5. Everyone wants to point to costs and funding programs. It is the metrics being optimized towards via the lack of coherent, vertical value system. Those are the roots

6. General education and the massive disparity in wealth and opportunity. Some will scream communism or socialism, but extreme greed of the less than 1% is really a huge problem when it leaves the rest of their citizens under educated, tired and so relatively poor. I just keep thinking "bread and circuses".

7. Maybe it’s time Americans stop letting Harvard grads and professors like Pinker run the country because fancy words and bad ides don’t fix broken streets and societies.

8. No vacation. Europe got about 5-7weeks. Big difference between rich and poor. Too greedy and not lufe enjoying

9. Another issue is gap in wealth via asset holdings, vast majority of Americans, that is to say modaly rather than the mean, don't have much economic power or punch.
   That data is hard for me to find, but I would guess the modal income in the US for full time workers is still probably sub-$40,000. That doesn't go too far pretty much anywhere nowadays.
   Freedom is also increasingly stifled, both economically and socially, so that up in the air.
   American healthcare is vast in capability, but the economic barriers are simply too great for thiwe without wealth to access.
   Foreigners with wealth can access the best of America's healthcare before poor citizens ever could think of it.

10. A country populated by 'the grass is always greener ' immigrants may be destined genetically to never be happy with their lot.

    My second point would be these same immigrants came to the USA for purely economic reasons. The mighty dollar is what underpins the culture, not education or culture or philosophy. Thru slavery and genocide the US grew spectacularly in a few generations. Perhaps any society based on such a history carries much guilt. It is certainly not likely to yield a happy population….. certainly not while it remains in denial of this past.

    The old joke that the USA went from Barbarism to decadence without the intervening period of civilization is probably very true. This can not be the recipe for a healthy happy society. I'm not sure the place deserves any better.

    ( I so wanted to say the explanation was religion…. but I think that a symptom not a cause )

11. The US metaphorically is lost and wandering in a desert of insatiable me-me-me individualism

12. Such a cool hair

13. This guy is one of the biggest morons out there. Either that, or he's a charlatan who doesn't believe his own BS. But I think it's more likely that he's blinded into stupidity by his own extreme privilege.

14. There's a lack of commitment to The common good in America, from top to the bottom

15. Reason: rejection of monarchy. God save King Charles III!

16. Inequality

17. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer

18. They don’t say why. So It’s garbage. Might be true in so far as Americans are unhappy. But no explanation.

19. The white hair stupid man is very elitist an racist, listening this cactus I feel like eating, tones of fatal, rhis guy is so superior!, he looks like god

20. Income inequality. That is the reason, backed up by massive pan national research by Wilkinson and Pikety 2009. Stephen is not the most well read psychologist

21. First-world countries' petty fights about who's suffering more really can't get sympathy from me. I came from a third world country, Brazil, we're this close to having a dictatorship and becoming like Venezuela. I know people from Brazil who went to US before the whole ICE thing. They worked as domestic clearners and all that low-paying jobs… they came back to Brazil with enough money to buy house, car and live well. Americans in average all have a car (if they want to), and they can buy a house if they work for it… in Brazil you can't buy a house even if you work your whole life. There are taxes even in breathing and the Government is always offering programs and money for people in poor and miserable conditions. But what does this do? This makes these same people not want to work for a better life, because the government is paying them to continue being poor. I wish I could live in the US. Don't care about the problems, just need someone to take me away from this country before it sinks into a full socialist dictatorship.

22. Both parties are bought. Serve the wealthy. Doesn't matter who you vote for — it's the same menu.

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24. Canadians don’t seem happier, they are less happy and rougher in their language and manners.

25. He never does answer the question of why…

26. Los gringos no son demicratas, ni por accidente, son fachos. Desde siempre!

27. Fantastic military budget though.

28. the professor has it wrong in one aspect, the "more or less democratic" USA has a one party system, the corporate party, blue or red, the two competing "ideologies" still revolve around serving the oligarchs (native or foreign) and their corporate interests.

29. It's by design. Tired and sick people do not revolt.

30. 1. there's the legacy of slavery; 2. the influence of religion on making people dumber, hence the bad life-style choices.

31. No explaining

32. I’m sure he gave an answer But political YouTube cut it off!

33. Apparently we need more hair spray.

34. This man has a beautiful eyes.

35. USA also has more economic growth than those other countries. The other affluent western countries redistribute more wealth (through taxation) and have more workers rights etc, and this may account for what Pinker is talking about, but maybe also the lower economic growth.

36. Pork products will be off the menu soon!

37. Good friend on Jeffrey Epstein

38. Hope britain doesnt become one of those….. britain ranked top 3 in all indices to invest and live in almost all surveys……

39. Yep, we're fat and unhappy. Yay!

40. At no point did they answer the question

41. America isn’t fat its not properly motivated 😂❤

42. Since Democrats started having more
    Power in the White House we became very unhappy

43. INCOME GAP AND EXTREME CAPITALISM is the answer.
    Europe, Canada has socialist policies that help poor folks

44. The elites are the problem. Everywhere. The time is coming to burn them off like the leeches they are.

45. Huge respect for Pinker who uses his influence to make the world better. Thank you, sir. 🇨🇦

46. The poor work for the wealthy with little return. We funnel the benefits of labor to the very top and we foolishly relish in it. Not realizing the disparity we’ve allowed to be created because too many are happy with being able to shop at Walmart and Amazon (which make the wealthy even wealthier).

47. Interesting "commonwealth" implies white countries

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