As we get wealthier, do we get happier?

Since you are Chinese you must believe everything has its own white and black. Even though all had been changed in your reformation (the big scale), and so does all inside the details inside the big frame. Which what cannot, now is available, and else. Now the new stuff that you had never encountered before reformation seems a need of adaption to the trend, and all old-fashioned traditions are fading swallowed by the lifestyle. It is a fair game play. Nothing can just holding a fully white or else. Yin and Yang will be always rotating to balance each other.

undoubtly, many people become richer in chinese, but it is not me. with the country become more strong, the rich people become richer, while the poor people become poorer. and i am that poor categary, could i be happier? we know that the policy to let some less people to become rich first, and they would help the other people be rich. that's impossible!

Doesnt matter how rich you are. Life still hands you onions.