100% Happiness. Satisfaction guaranteed, or you’ll be forcibly injected with tge happiness drug 🫠
(I just thought of antidepressants = happiness drug and this random thought popped up lmao)
That’s not what they mean by “happiness” when they say Finland is the happiest country in the world. It’s more about overall life satisfaction and I can assure you that this isn’t achieveable by drugs alone.
It’s an interesting approach to studying something as hard to define as happiness, but it does make sense to me. Their own explanation:
How is your ranking calculated?
Our happiness ranking is based on a single life evaluation question called the Cantril Ladder:
Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top.
The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you.
On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?
This question is both democratic and universal. Rather than constructing an index from multiple metrics, the Cantril Ladder empowers people to make their own judgements about what matters most, regardless of their culture and background.
The question does not mention concepts like happiness, wellbeing, or satisfaction, so it can be easily translated and understood in many different languages.
Damn, this question is kind of a mind fuck. I could spend a long time thinking about my answer.
Ya, I mean I would definitely be “laying on the floor curled in a fetal position”, but am wailing or sobbing quietly?
I would start with thinking in rougher terms (bad, okay, pretty good, great) and then narrowing it down to a specific number. Overall it is about what you feel so go with your gut.
It’s a good question imo to at least see how content people are
Take away the booze and I wonder how and where these rates would tank, lol. The material comfort is definitely nice, and a good chunk of happy living though.
The hard part would be finding a place to make your country that would be legally recognised as not part of another country’s territory. Maybe construct an artificial island in the ocean, or a floating island made of essentially large boats, or settle in Antarctica and hope when the treaty goes up for renewal you can get recognised?
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They didn’t really ask us about our happiness, but rather just analyzed a bunch of facts. It looks like dor them “the ability leas a safe family life” is what is most important for happiness.
But if you.don’t have a family, this place is worse than, well, almost anything in Europe.
They didn’t really ask us about our happiness, but rather just analyzed a bunch of facts
Incorrect. World Happiness Report uses a poll question (conducted by Gallup) as the sole basis for the ranking.
The other stuff isn’t used for making the ranking but rather:
The six metrics are used to explain the estimated extent to which each of these factors contribute to increasing life satisfaction when compared to the hypothetical nation of Dystopia, but they themselves do not have an effect on the total score reported for each country.
Isnt that the plot to we happy few? and being high is not the same as happiness.
I don’t think the people who do the happiness statistic could see past the “forcibly inject” part.
Its called the Geneva Suggestions.
Only the first one is forced.
After that, you’re begging for it.
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