Happiness is a central theme of development-critical writings. Modern societies, despite their goal-oriented complexity and amount of labour time, do not help people to reach happiness, according to some development critics. In their view, happiness may be harder to reach in modern society than in primitive ones. Some religious organizations, for example, the Roman Catholic Church, have from time to time taken anti-modernist and development-critical stances by criticizing modern technology or other principal characteristics of prevailing societies.