Wealthy, Successful, and Miserable is a New York Times article that looks at how more and more research shows what really makes us happy in our jobs, yet in practice people are less and less happy at work.
Jack Bogle told the anecdote in his book Enough: “At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds,’Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . enough.'”