And by almost all tracked indicators, they are happier and healthier. > Conformity to the top-down bureaucracy's state declaration of what constitutes "virtue"

And by almost all tracked indicators, they are happier and healthier. > Conformity to the top-down bureaucracy's state declaration of what constitutes "virtue" is mandatory. It's a democracy, isn't it? Therefore the people have chosen to live this way because the majority believes it gives the collective a better life. The poor sod in the US who has to pay $15,000 to have a baby or put a cast around a broken leg would probably love to have the problem of expensive luxury goods.