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educated just enough to fully embrace the human mind's tendency towards pessimism 

not educated enough to push past it

sad!

to answer your question: It‘s because we are generally more educated

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true, peaking in the 19th century and trending down-only since then is rough

Losing your empire and now your economy is hard on a man.

nooooooo I‘m literally so offended rn

regulate this bastard

Well all the crazy optimists migrated to America 😅

America has only ever really experienced ‘up only’. Theres been dips here and there but the yanks don’t know proper long term decline.

I think we're more naturally inclined to be frugal with money. Opposite of hypergambling 'mericans trying to get out of lower/middle class.