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That "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is a fact already noted by the Talmud some 1,500 years ago. But what's so great about being rich, anyway?

For several years now, positive thinking has been in vogue. But the New York Times reports on a group of psychologists who are "worried that we're not making space for people to feel bad" and advocate a return to the psychologist's original role of "focusing on mental illness and human failing..."

a) It's a phase we're going through; b) It's an empowerment thing; c) It’s the (spiritual) nature of things; d) Life is what you make it; e) Truth is in the externalities; f) It works.