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We are living through a profound contradiction. Never before has humanity had access to such levels of wealth, technological tools, communication systems, and collective organizational capacity. Yet, in the most advanced societies, phenomena that were expected to decline with progress are instead intensifying: depression, loneliness, anxiety, existential fatigue, and a growing loss of meaning.
The World Happiness Report 2026 highlights this paradox with striking clarity: the most developed countries are not immune to psychological distress. Even more concerning, among younger generations in Western societies, subjective well-being has significantly deteriorated over the past fifteen years.
This observation forces us to revisit a fundamental question: what defines a truly developed society, if it succeeds in protecting physical conditions but increasingly fails to nurture meaningful lives? This podcast explores the structural limits of modern growth models, the erosion of social cohesion, and the existential cost of material abundance.
