Poor societies are bored, wealthy societies have ennui
Scarcity vs. abundance problems
Solomon found life meaningless, not tedious
I grew up in the countryside before the internet was a thing,
and the thing I means back then by “boredom” doesn’t seem to exist anymore
the way I see people using the word “bored” now is a separate thing, afaict
how odd to watch a human experience evaporate from a population