The reason times seemed simpler during your childhood is *that you were a child*, and if your parents did their job, they shielded you from a lot of the complexity of *their* adulthood so you could enjoy *your* childhood:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/hermit-kingdom/#simpler-times
That's where the "National Customer Rage Survey" comes in. It's been surveying a panel of 1,000 representative consumers every three years for a decade, continuing a research project that started in 1976.
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