一切在增多,幸福除外。假如你用铅笔和方格纸绘制一张第二次世界大战以来欧美民众生活变化的曲线图,你会发现所绘制的曲线多呈向上走势。可以说几乎每一项体现社会福利的客观指数,如人均收入、“实际”收入水平、人均寿命、住房面积、小轿车的人均拥有量、每年拨打的电话次数、每年旅行的次数、所获得的最高学位、智商分数等,都在增长。 Everything is increasing, except for happiness. If you draw a graph of changes in the lives of Europeans and Americans since the Second World War with pencil and graph paper, you will find that the curves drawn are mostly upwards. It can be said that almost every objective index reflecting social welfare such as per capita income, “actual” income level, life expectancy per capita, housing area, per capita possession of cars, telephone calls made each year, number of trips per year, The highest degree, IQ scores, are growing.