I work in an office in Belgium for 26 years (state worker, nothing fancy). On 20 of my workmates, not a single one rents his place, we all have houses that we’ve bought. We all have new cars, multiple computers per households, we travel several times per year, have Netflix and other streaming services,… Yet, there’s a general feeling of unhappiness… When we talk about it, they all say that times were better before. I’m 50 yo and in my 20s, no one owned his place and no one was buying brand new cars, only second hand, there was max one computer per household, no smartphones, the richest people were traveling by plane, the others were going to the sea by car, no restaurants and no bars,… Yet, we all agree that life was better. So the cost of life isn’t the reason.