Some good Pew data here on what makes life meaningful, including the image above. This is from a study of 19,000 adults across 17 industrialized nations, and it does make you wonder who in the USA was being surveyed, because “Occupation” in the four-slot does not sound like the USA’s work-until-it-breaks-you culture. Here’s kinda the “nut” or summary graph:
From analyzing people’s answers, it is clear that one source of…