Gregg Easterbrook on the American Standard of Living
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The Rise of Stress and Anxiety in Modern Life
There are four or five things I propose in the progress paradoxes, counterbalancing factors. The material standards would rise and yet people feel no happier. People who believe their lives have meaning are much more likely to be happy than people who believe that life is meaningless. It does not matter whether you derive that belief from religious faith or from ethical philosophy.
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