How to Save Americans From the Hell of Work

Elite workers are in existential crisis: Their stable, well-paying jobs are making them “miserable.” That's the takeaway from several recent articles in the (elite) press. In the New York Times Magazine, Charles Duhigg explored the disappointment of latter-day Gordon Gekkos—Duhigg's fellow Harvard Business School alumni—whose pursuit of wealth has left them hollow. “I feel like I'm wasting my life,” one told him. “When I die, is anyone going to care that I earned an extra percentage point of return? My work feels totally meaningless.”