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)

  • Perspectivist@feddit.uk
    22·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
      6·
      22 hours ago

      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.

      • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        13 hours ago

        I’ll never be above 8 or below 2.

        No matter how bad it could get, there could always “but also there’s snakes on the loose”

        • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world
          2·
          19 hours ago

          Ya, I mean I would definitely be “laying on the floor curled in a fetal position”, but am wailing or sobbing quietly?

        • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          21 hours ago

          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