Gratitude: yes please or no thanks?

I’ve long espoused the benefits of gratitude. But critics have a point Recently, the social critic Barbara Ehrenreich wrote an essay criticising the fashionable notion of gratitude as a path to happiness. This prompted an amusing spectacle: the proponents of gratitude attempted to demolish her argument without seeming, well, ungrateful that she’d made it. Too often, Ehrenreich thinks, gratitude serves dubious ends. Should a Walmart worker really feel grateful for a $1 pay rise, when