According to The Progress Paradox: How life gets better while people feel worse by Gregg Easterbrook, the average westerner lives better than 99.4% of all human beings who have ever lived. By any measure of affluence – health care, leisure, technology – the average American enjoys a quality of life beyond anyone’s wildest dreams even 30 years ago. We have more of everything except – happiness! The percentage of Americans who characterize themselves as ‘happy’ has been in d