Clements on Happiness

The world's best PF Columnist, the Journal's Jonathan Clements, had a nice column yesterday on happiness.

Despite the sharp rise in our standard of living in recent decades, Americans today are little or no happier than earlier generations. Why not?

A new study suggests one possibility: Maybe we need to be smarter about how we spend our time. And, no, that doesn't mean watching more TV.

The conclusion that Clements draws is that the reason happiness isn't going up, despite the fact that we are on average working fewer hours, is that we are replacing our work time with TV and internet time.

I know what makes me the happiest, though. Being outside:

But at 6:30 on a rainy morning, there's nothing like curling up with the internet.