Published Date: June 6, 2010

I hope not.

From Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World (affiliate link):

We all know that any decision involves making certain trade-offs, but it’s how we weigh these trade-offs that counts. In a society that tends to measure everything in terms of dollars and cents, we learn from a young age to consider the costs of our decisions in financial terms. But what about the personal and social costs involved in pursuing money over meaning? These are exactly the kinds of costs many of us tend to gloss over — and the very ones we need to consider most.