Having More Won’t Make Us Happy
Having more does not necessarily mean having more happiness. Barbara Walters interviewed billionaire media mogul David Geffen in a conversation published in More Than Money magazine: “She said, ‘O.K., David, now that you’re a billionaire, are you happy?’ He shot back without hesitation: ‘Barbara, anybody who believes money makes you happy doesn’'t have money.'” It’s a brilliant insight, because money doesn’'t make you happy. Alternet recently posted an excerpt of Bill McKibben‘s recent book Deep Economy: The Wealth of Community and a Durable Future. I recommend the excerpt highly; it explores the idea that the foundation of our economic assumptions must be re-evaluated and re-tooled for our modern context. Bill speaks to the heart of the matter: Our civilization has conditioned us to believe that more is better, because we believe simply more makes us happy. We all know it’s not true, but many of us are not willing to face our inner shadow work to really embody this t...
