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Part of the problem is that all of this self-reported, we're essentially measuring people's feelings of well-being, not their actual well-being. I don't doubt that by most objective measures, people are better off than they were 50 years ago. But people don't live "objectively."
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Part of the problem is that all of this self-reported, we're essentially measuring people's feelings of well-being, not their actual well-being. I don't doubt that by most objective measures, people are better off than they were 50 years ago. But people don't live "objectively."
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