From the article: “….More charitable giving! Fewer designer handbags! Free hugs everywhere! Welcome to the post-recession America. Or so says the cover story from New York magazine, a buoyant ode to the bright side of NYC’s financial doom. Green shoots of human
compassion abound, it seems, from booming volunteerism, increased enrollments in divinity school, and plunging crime stats (murders are down 21% in New York). So should we all stop worrying and learn to love a world with much less money?”
http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/05/is_the_recession_making_you_a_nicer_person.php