David Brooks: We're getting happier, but not wealthier
(NEWSER) - America is rapidly transforming into a post-materialist world—and that’s put a screeching halt to our economic growth, argues David Brooks of the New York Times . To prove the point, he imagines two men. The first lived from 1900 to 1974, watching the world move from horse-drawn buggies to Chevys. With all those material changes around him, this man worked hard, created, say, a brakes business, because to improve his life, he needed to create wealth. More»
