Barry Schwartz:

Are people actually liberated by all this freedom?

Living a decent life just isn't good enough anymore. Why would you settle for decent when anything is possible?

It turns out that when you give people this kind of unconstrained opportunity to reinvent themselves, they don't know what to do.

In this land of milk and honey of unimagined freedom and affluence, everybody seems to be miserable.

Louis CK:

Everything is amazing right now, and nobody's happy ...

Brian Eno:

Use the dynamics of the system to take you in the direction you wanted to go.

Tyler Cowen:

The pro-wealth cultural vision may be overly optimistic about human willingness to embrace the idea of responsibility.

The relevant question, in my view, is not about how much you have earned but about how you have earned it.

Doris Lessing:

What government, anywhere in the world, will happily envisage its subjects learning to free themselves from governmental and state rhetoric and pressures? Passionate loyalty and subjection to group pressure is what every state relies on.

No, I cannot imagine any nation -- or not for long -- teaching its citizens to become individuals able to resist group pressures.