A bigger house, a bigger car, a second car, a second home, more eating out, more vacations abroad, more charity spend, I can go on, but I think you get the idea. You can try to write this off as cultural differences, but if we're being honest, that's just cope.
The idea that economic growth is irrelevant is nonsense.
https://econofact.org/factbrief/fact-check-has-the-economic-...