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Essay plan
Introduction
General idea& background of this phenomenon
Investigation shows more than half of the people in USA feel unhappy nowadays.
(Example: Harvard University set up “happiness lessons” to enlighten those depressed students)

Causes:
1) Intense competition force us spend more time and energy on working. (mental stress)
2) Less time to hang out wiz friends and families. Distance between us and families would be bigger
3) The type of job or major that you doing now can’t reflect your personal value / actually you don’t like them.
Argument: which one is more important ? Money? Achievement? happy?
a) Money is important
1) Money is the resource of our life. It’s hard to be happy when we get rid of money
2) Have to do some work you don’t like for rising your family
3) Money provide you decently social position

b) Happy is the most important
1) Good mood in the premise of your good life and working quality
2) Choose the thing you want to do and show your value. After all you just experience your life once time
3) Depends on different outlook on life and world view

Tendency in future and the consequence may cause
1) working efficient would be low, suicide rate may increase
2) public order may be mass ( people looking ways to release themselves)

Conclusion
Summary
My opinion: happy and mental health is overweight than money.