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Stopmakingsense · 56-60, F
Yes. Democracy is good, too. The USA isn't a country at all by those metrics.
TinyViolins · 31-35, M
That's what Andrew Yang was talking about in his campaign for President. There's really no good reason why we have to prioritize GDP. Even the guy that created GDP, Simon Kuznets, wrote that it was a terrible measure of the health of a nation. It doesn't measure anything that makes life worth living or what makes a country great.
Yang talked about things like happiness, freedom from substance abuse, better mental health scores, clean air and water, and other metrics like that should be part of the national discussion. Because really, who bases any of their life decisions on what the GDP is?
Yang talked about things like happiness, freedom from substance abuse, better mental health scores, clean air and water, and other metrics like that should be part of the national discussion. Because really, who bases any of their life decisions on what the GDP is?
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littlepuppywantanewlife · 31-35, M
@revenant she was from Slovakian.
quitwhendone · M
@quitwhendone It is but its not important enough to make policy on
quitwhendone · M
@Ozymandiaz Who is making the policies?
@quitwhendone mostly corporations
Driver2 · M
@Ozymandiaz because happiness is an individual feeling
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@revenant they do. But its not used to form policy
revenant · F
@Ozymandiaz policies changing natural human psychology ?
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Yes, yet not likely to happen in a so called "free market" economy.
And if by some odd chance it was done, it just wouldn't be "advertised".
That's exactly what happens in a free market economy. The important things get hushed up due to simply not being known about.
Sadly GDP will always come first.
And if by some odd chance it was done, it just wouldn't be "advertised".
That's exactly what happens in a free market economy. The important things get hushed up due to simply not being known about.
Sadly GDP will always come first.
@Entwistle I was reading a bit about Bhutan. Thats where the question came from.
BetweenKittensandRiots · 36-40, MVIP
@Ozymandiaz https://time.com/collection/guide-to-happiness/4706590/scandinavia-world-happiness-report-nordics/
@BetweenKittensandRiots I dont live in Finland. But I have decided to do an online degree with a university based there because I can as being a citizen of the EU. That made me happy.
BetweenKittensandRiots · 36-40, MVIP
@Ozymandiaz Yeah The social support system in Norway has made it blow everyone else out of the park which does NOT make sense because seasonal effective disorder is SUPER common and it's so far north- but the social support system completely overrides that.
Graylight · 51-55, F
It is on many lists. Several reliable sources compose a list the happiest nations in the world, ranked only by asking citizens questions along their daily range of satisfaction. Some of the poorest nations on the planet rate highest on this list. It's our country's fatal fascination with bigger, better, stronger, faster and our tendency to equate happiness with wealth, power and status that keeps us so unhappy. We're the DJ Khaled of the world.
Check outthe World Happiness Report's map; it's interesting.
Check outthe World Happiness Report's map; it's interesting.
littlepuppywantanewlife · 31-35, M
@GerOttman Whatever kink makes you happy 😛
TheConstantGardener · 56-60, M
@TheConstantGardener Rate your overall happiness on a scale of 1-10. Something like that I would think.
quitwhendone · M
@quitwhendone It is measured but it does not inform policy
