“What’s more, the world’s richest, freest, happiest people are the ones who are most responsible for these problems. On a per capita basis, Americans consume as much as thirty-five times the natural resources of their developing-country peers. 64 And the world’s financial troubles can be linked to the excesses of Wall Street, where people live like demigods and buy their own justice. It seems that prosperity, justice, dignity, freedom, happiness, and peace do not guarantee themselves–either forever or for everyone. If anything, it’s our success with these desirables that increasingly infringes on our neighbors and on our own future.”