Why Prosperity Has Increased but Happiness Has Not
The title is a little out of date. Prosperity has been increasing in the 20th century, but has not increased for a few decades.<p>Sure, crap like gadgets is now cheaper, but buying a house, giving your kids an education, and so on have increased. In the 40s and 50s a middle class household could get by just fine (and the house be bought) by a single income earner. Such a house now would be on the verge of bankruptcy. And that&#x27;s not even adding in the decline of working class jobs, and the instability of most modern careers (outside of IT which still has it good).