The 60 minutes show can be watched on the Internet. The episode called Happy Place (paraphrased) is interesting.

Of course I have something to say about it. They talk about Danes getting six weeks vacation, with only a 37 hour work week. Nobody is stressing though that society can only function if people are productive. However, the focus here in America is success, which is equated for the most part with wealth accumulation. So, one's productive capacity is seen as their ability to accumulate wealth. The assumption is also that success will make you happy. So happiness is the goal, which leads to an equation of sorts; happy = success, success = wealth accumulation. Hence, happy = wealth accumulation.

Can we survive with a six week vacation time for everyone? Probably. But happiness means different things to different people. The way I see it, the definition is obscured. When we talk specifically about happiness, the generic is assumed, but that is rarely the case. In other words, people talk about what they think will make themselves happy, but the listener assumes happiness in general.

I think when we finally equate happiness as something other than wealth accumulation society in general will improve.