最近接待了一些國內來的同事.

感歎啊，十幾年前zz剛到美國來的時候，衣帽鞋襪，床單被褥，甚至柴米油鹽，恨不得把雖有東西能搬的都搬到美國來, 回去的時候也就是給老人帶兩瓶魚油鈣片兒。現在同胞們來的時候都是空手來，然後去Samsonite買兩個大箱子，再去outlet買一堆衣服包包，化妝品，營養品，果仁兒，奶粉，小電器，嬰兒用品，最誇張的是Costco拎兩桶橄欖油帶回去, 櫻桃又大又甜又便宜，可惜不讓帶, 大別墅又大又涼快又便宜，可惜帶不走。lol... 最近聽到見到無數的國人在美國買房子買地，把孩子送到美國來讀中學大學。。。

Two thoughts:

1. (Some) people in China are undoubtedly getting richer, or I should say, to be more precise, that numerically they are making more money than before.

2. Timewise, they live better than before for sure, but do they really feel this way, after seeing water deep fire hot of American life? 

Now after seeing each and every side of the coin back and forth for many times, I humbly observed that Americans are by and large more content and living a happier life than the Chinese, and, from a not so wild speculation, so are most Europeans and even the Japanese for that matter, during 3 decades of economic stagnation if not contraction.

I used to think it's not the absolute wealth but the relative change of the well-beings that matters the most to people's perception of happiness. What's wrong with this picture?

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• 說明，第三世界的位置反過來了`` -europe- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 08:48:14

• 估計你連左右腫的原文都沒有讀懂，咳！ -mknc- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 08:53:24

• 老歐的強項是德文。中文與英文都不咋的：）） -老看客- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 08:56:33

• 如果真的倒過來了，你就急了吧？ -europe- ♂ (83 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 09:05:22

• ZZ真是正式歸海了！記得你HG期間在上海前後將近有4年吧？ -老看客- ♂ (35 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 08:50:59

• 歸海數月,等到桂花飄香的時候我還會回去的.這次回去帶四個箱子,裝什麽我都想好了,lol... -亞當撕蜜- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 09:11:04

• 你是說等到傳說中的月球上的那顆桂樹開花時你會再次HG？：）） -老看客- ♂ (43 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 09:18:32

• 準備給嫦娥姐姐帶點雅詩蘭黛特潤精華+眼霜套裝,據說介玩兒美國比月亮上便宜不少. -亞當撕蜜- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 09:28:33

• nothing's wrong with that picture. -趙飛燕- ♀ (232 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 09:01:31

• what do you mean -亞當撕蜜- ♂ (281 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 09:07:31

• CO：the first no nonsense post after a long while from zz -999朵玫瑰- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 09:07:43

• 這就是所謂“用腳投票”的應證 -勿來三- ♂ (147 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 09:10:41

• 勿總隻要不談民主與專製的話題，其它的評論都是相當精辟的，尤其是數據與圖表分析：）） -老看客- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 09:14:24

• 所以你更不能小看我對民主vs專製的闡述 -勿來三- ♂ (83 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 09:26:19

• 痛校的同學對一個簡單易見的問題都要 go through 那些規模化的思考，探索過程 -happychoir- ♀ (314 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 09:26:28

• 哦，是這樣的啊。太精P了,你也是 -亞當撕蜜- ♂ (76 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 09:40:18

• i did? maybe it just happened to have slipped my mind ;) -happychoir- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 10:02:01

• Happy MM這水平，明顯超過了某些藤校Ph.D.嘛：）） -老看客- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 09:52:53

• 對藤校Ph.D.，偶嫉妒的很，沒事就撓他們幾下。 -happychoir- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 10:04:38

• happiness is a relative term -quark愛吃油豆腐- ♂ (64 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 09:31:18

• 不錯,望置頂 -野生動物攝影家- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 09:58:40

• 頂左總(右逢源)的water deep fire hot -ily- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 12:14:17

• 頂zz的用心之作， 肥腸deep, 有一點 -Wadcchinese- ♂ (186 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 16:05:33

• Interesting, Why they all go to outlet Mall? Can't find anything -ZoyaWashington- ♀ (487 bytes) () 07/03/2012 postreply 23:50:11