34181YuNoHaHoDe39EvenÌf WeHave OvercomeMany Of
YESTERDAY'S MISERIES,
ATTAINING POSITIVE HAPPINESS
MAY BE FAR MORE DIFFICULT THAN
ABOLISHING DOWNRIGHT SUFFERING.
It took just a piece of bread to make a starving medieval peasant joyful!
How do you bring joy to a bored, overpaid and overweight engineer?
The second half of the 20th century was a golden age for the USA:
Victory in the Second World War, followed by an even more decisive victory in the Cold War,
turned it into the leading global superpower!Between 1950 & 2000 American GDP grew from $2 trillion
to $12 trillion. Real per capita income doubled. The newly invented contraceptive pill made sex freer than ever.
Women, gays, African Americans & all kinds of other minorities finally dìd get a bigger slice of the American pie?
A FLOOD OF CHEAP CARS, REFRIGERATORS, AIR CONDITIONERS, VACUUM CLEANERS, DISHWASHERS,
LAUNDRY MACHINES, TELEPHONES, TELEVISIONS & COMPUTERS CHANGED DAILY LIFE ALMOST BEYOND
RECOGNITION.... Yet studies have shown that American subjective well-being levels in the 1990s
remained roughly the same as they were in the 1950s! In Japan, average real income
rose by a factor of five between 1958 and 1987, in one of the fastest
economic booms of history. This avalanche of wealth,
coupled with myriad positive & negative changes
in Japanese lifestyles & social relations,
had surprisingly little impact
on Japanese subjective
well-being
levels!?
ATTAINING POSITIVE HAPPINESS
MAY BE FAR MORE DIFFICULT THAN
ABOLISHING DOWNRIGHT SUFFERING.
It took just a piece of bread to make a starving medieval peasant joyful!
How do you bring joy to a bored, overpaid and overweight engineer?
The second half of the 20th century was a golden age for the USA:
Victory in the Second World War, followed by an even more decisive victory in the Cold War,
turned it into the leading global superpower!Between 1950 & 2000 American GDP grew from $2 trillion
to $12 trillion. Real per capita income doubled. The newly invented contraceptive pill made sex freer than ever.
Women, gays, African Americans & all kinds of other minorities finally dìd get a bigger slice of the American pie?
A FLOOD OF CHEAP CARS, REFRIGERATORS, AIR CONDITIONERS, VACUUM CLEANERS, DISHWASHERS,
LAUNDRY MACHINES, TELEPHONES, TELEVISIONS & COMPUTERS CHANGED DAILY LIFE ALMOST BEYOND
RECOGNITION.... Yet studies have shown that American subjective well-being levels in the 1990s
remained roughly the same as they were in the 1950s! In Japan, average real income
rose by a factor of five between 1958 and 1987, in one of the fastest
economic booms of history. This avalanche of wealth,
coupled with myriad positive & negative changes
in Japanese lifestyles & social relations,
had surprisingly little impact
on Japanese subjective
well-being
levels!?
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