To get back in balance, the developed countries need more people making wealth and less shuffling it around.

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President Boris Yeltsin's fitful rule is seen to be ever more designed to serve the purposes of those around him, and ever less to serve the interests of the people at large.

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If people look in and a see an all-white room they are less likely to hang around.

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The more people see that they can create and maintain their own objects around them, he believes, the less they will squander resources on cheap and transient goods.

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Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at University of California, Berkeley, says studies have shown that people who use Botox to hide lines on their face feel less pleasure in response to subtle things around them and aren't able to read other people's emotions as well.

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Still, most of the people around him believe if the job is offered and Gates takes it, he'll end up staying less than a year.

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Young people have a "greater sense of entitlement" now and are less willing to make sacrifices, or move around the country, to further their career, he says.

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And rental prices in many major markets across the U.S. have been on the rise as less people own homes, making places like New Haven, CT, a city centered around college students and young adults, some of the Worst Cities for Renters.

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