No that's us. WE DO THAT.

Yeah but my 95 years old grandma had been depressed for at least 20 years while she had to bury her husband and most of her children and struggled with the slow loss of hearing, sight, mobility and cognitive ability.

Dang, it's like he vibe coded humanity

Why would they not be included?

...huh. It centers right on the working years, doesn't it? Plummets when you would enter the workforce, and rebounds right around retirement

That makes sense for the average person maybe. Unfortunately, I am not the average person and I will almost certainly be cripplingly even more sad in old age. I have strong reasons to believe this, largely due to having missed out on life more or less by sheltering myself from it in my youth. And as I age I'll continue to know this and it'll become more and more cemented and bitter.

Though I will say, this also might be influenced by the fact that they merely surveyed a slice of people, and older people might have been happier in 2012 (and continue to be so) because they have more money than previous generations will have in their own old age.

Life is definitely a curse.

Lol. You just described why I hate nostalgia. It's also why I prefer to move forward.

It's survivorship bias imo.