"I used to be happier like you. Then I took a Trump in the knee..."
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The US shot itself in the foot and now it's pointed at it's face.
One of the problems with America is if you ask people on the street who's the happiest country in the world, a good chunk will answer America and not believe this result. I've always said the problem with being #1 (or thinking you are) is that you don't work very hard to improve.
One metric America leads the world in: self-delusion regarding its own performance in every area. How many people say America leads in math, science, health? Don't get me wrong, in a lot of categories the US is top 20, but very few where we actually are #1. Until this attitude is fixed, we're not going to see real improvement. RAH RAH RAH USA #1 is nice to whip up a crowd at a rally, but it's not good for positive ongoing change.
This is a helpful way to break down Nationalism vs Patriotism. Nationalism being a delusional belief that we are the best, and Patriotism being a love for your country and fellow citizen and striving to be the best.
That Pledge of Allegiance shit really worked.
How is Israel even in the top ten? They are truly detached from reality.
Well the Israelis are definitely really happy.
If you didn't put Israel in top ten, it would be considered anti Semitic
The methodology is flawed.
They do ask people how happy they are, but most of the score is from other factors, like GDP, income equality, personal freedoms, etc.
It's definetly a flawed methodology. It implies the certain qualities have the same importance to cultures worldwide. I'm born in Scotland but ethnically Punjabi. I go pakistan and i see extreme poverty and struggle, yet I speak and live with people of different classes and it's often those who are poor but with community who are happiest (something similar applies to many nations I've been) not to say wealth wouldn't make them happier or live longer, but our current capitalist system is a disease that very very few nations were able to effectively control so that the society benefits (gulf Arabs, Singapore and Nordics) but generally wealth doesn't make a nation happier unless it's somewhat fairly distributed
I actually got a call from the survey these are based on. While i dont know how they compile the answers into a score, i felt the questions were quite relevant.
Also, i feel finns score high because we are culturally modest people who enjoy the simple things in life. Are we physiologically experiencing more happiness than others? Maybe not. But we propably score high on measurements of how content people say they are. ”Cant compain”
Finland isnt ”happy” but less miserable than other countries. Though our current gov is cutting from the poor and education etc to make economy numbers look better. Worse times are coming.
How shitty are things in India when...
US here.
I'm betting we'll be outright giddy this year compared to next year.
I don't think so. Next year being sad will be illegal.
What you don’t want to live in a Christo-fascist dictatorship with no eggs, and lots of measles, where you get sent to Guantanamo Bay for not retweeting Elon Musk’s or Trump’s latest Nazi rant?
As a finn, I can confirm I'm the happiest person in the world for the whole week it's sunny and doesn't rain during the summer!
Suomen kesä on kaunis ja vähäluminen.
Also, if you make it through the darkness of November alive, you must have built so much mental resiliency that rest of the year is walk in the park regardless of what happens.
meanwhile, in America...
"oooh, unhappiness? how dreadfully monetizeable!"
starts big pharma antidepressants corporation
Not that hard, just got to look up how Crassus did it.
The dining alone hits. The lack of community is palpable in corporate America.
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