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Are we living the nice life - and what defines good, anyhow? Americans today are building a totally different construction for success than their parents' era, using new metrics that TEDWomen speaker and columnist Courtney Martin has termed collectively the "New Better Off". The New Better Off places a name to the American happening of rejecting the traditional imagine a nine-to-five job, home possession, and a nuclear family framework - illuminating the alternative ways Americans are seeking enjoyment and success. Including commentary on recent changes in how exactly we view work, customs and community, marriage, rituals, money, living preparations, and spirituality, The New Better Off uses personal testimonies and social evaluation to explore the fads shaping our country today. Martin includes growing topics such as freelancing, collaborative ingestion, communal living, and the breaking down of gender jobs. The New Better Off is approximately the creative options individuals are making in their vocational and personal lives, but it is also about the motions, formal and casual, that are coalescing around the New Better Off idea - folks who are reinventing the communal safety net and determining how to truly better their own areas.
