It comes as no surprise to me to see a study verifying what I've experienced first hand since moving to America...
Americans - including myself - are getting shafted by a capitalist system run amok. It's all out of balance, and corporate and shareholder greed is rotting away the very quality of our lives. A select few are drowning under the trappings of wealth, while the rest of us, the majority underclass (sorry, middle class, it was sad to see you go and we miss you ever so much) is drowning under mountains of toil.
When last did I take a day of vacation? I can't remember. I guess that somewhere along the line the bait and switch occurred. There we were, merrily working to live, and then suddenly the corporate overlords did a sleight of hand maneuver on us, and now we're stuck here living to work. We've been duped.
Americans less happy today than 30 years ago: study (reuters.com)