感叹啊，十几年前zz刚到美国来的时候，衣帽鞋袜，床单被褥，甚至柴米油盐，恨不得把虽有东西能搬的都搬到美国来, 回去的时候也就是给老人带两瓶鱼油钙片儿。现在同胞们来的时候都是空手来，然后去Samsonite买两个大箱子，再去outlet买一堆衣服包包，化妆品，营养品，果仁儿，奶粉，小电器，婴儿用品，最夸张的是Costco拎两桶橄榄油带回去, 樱桃又大又甜又便宜，可惜不让带, 大别墅又大又凉快又便宜，可惜带不走。lol... 最近听到见到无数的国人在美国买房子买地，把孩子送到美国来读中学大学。。。
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?
