You become happier when you are no longer hungry, cold, living in unstable circumstances or unable to access medical care. Once you have all that, no amount of money will make you any happier. Half of Americans lack the basics I mentioned. They’d be happier if they reached security. The top 10 percent keep hogging all the resources, even though more money is incapable of making them happy, and even though they know their greed is part of why others are suffering.