I don’t want to be so thankful that I start to believe the world is perfect. Which some people argue is the greatest danger of gratitude. Author Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a New York Times op-ed a few years ago called “The Selfish Side of Gratitude.” In the piece, she says that gratitude can be the enemy of positive social change. She sees gratitude as an opiate of the people. Walmart employees are told to embrace gratitude instead of complain about their low pay. Ehrenreich even hints that the gratitude movement is a right-wing plot.
