Past vs. present

According to the Easterbrook, Greg. The Progress paradox. New York: random

house, 2003.people in the united states live 99.6% better than ever before. Technology

has made life easier, and health care better. For the most part the U.S is now a equal

opportunity country. Yet like anything else, there is always a down side. An example of that

would be, the major increase in anxiety. Or even the increase of obesity. The world will never be

a completely happy place, and no one is to blame.

Today people are surrounded my shopping malls, fast food, and houses with two cars in each

driveway. Looking back a hundred years age none of these things are even heard of. Does this

mean that people are unhappy a hundred years ago because they don't have what we do? No it

doesn't, they wouldn't even know what those things where. If people today where put back into

the state of a hundred years ago, they would......

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Title: The Pursuit Of Happiness
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