Wilson's Landing

Is a Well-Lived Life Worth Anything?

“The economy we have today will let you chow down on a supersize McBurger, check derivative prices on your latest smartphone, and drive your giant SUV down the block to buy a McMansion on hypercredit” 

an outcomes gap: a yawning chasm the size of the Grand Canyon between what our economy produces and what you might call a meaningfully well-lived life, what the ancient Greeks called eudaimonia.

hedonic opulence vs

eudaimonic prosperity

doing, achieving, fulfilling, becoming, inspiring, transcending, creating, accomplishing or 

are you just (yawn) a pawn in the tired, predictable game called ‘the pursuit of diminishing returns to hyperconsumption’: the game that’s rigged by hedge-fund bots against you?

http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2011/05/is_a_well_lived_live_worth_anything.html