Dubya's Chronicle clipping makes a big fuss about wages. Their idea is that it doesn't matter if Americans are the happiest and the wealthiest in the world --all is lost if salaries are down. They'd prefer to have us living in miserable squalor as long as we have a nice paycheck.
My personal definition of 'wealth' includes happiness, which IMHO is the real goal. From what I've seen, riches (like fame, popularity, health and power) seem to come about as the result of happiness --even though a lot of people vainly strive for the results in the belief it will bring about the cause. The truth is that happiness simply starts with a conscious decision to be happy, and the rest can follow.
So wealth OR happiness ? What kind of pollyana nonsense is that ?