[tarboreus]

Except that empirically, on average, they're miserable, by self-report. It's the most depressed generation.

https://www.mhanational.org/number-people-reporting-anxiety-... https://www.aecf.org/blog/generation-z-and-mental-health

Not great reports but I've read actual papers on this in the past.

[Bancakes]

I see those are American self-reports. From experience, here around Eastern Europe, I am surrounded by people content with being single. If anything, life doesn't get cheaper.

[tsol]

So they say, but single people are statistically more unhappy to the degree that they don't live as long as married people. Saying this as a single person

[Bancakes]

Best response I can think of is 'Simpson's paradox'