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As stated elsewhere in the thread, northern Europe bucks this "trend" that the author sees. The nuclear family is as weak as it has ever been, christianity and
by engineeringwoke 4y ago
As stated elsewhere in the thread, northern Europe bucks this "trend" that the author sees. The nuclear family is as weak as it has ever been, christianity and its ideals are an afterthought, and people have never been happier.
- DeathArrow 4y agoAnd yet the suicide rate in Norway is among the highest in the world. Crafted studies proclaim people to be happy but they forgot what happiness is.
- hhmc 4y ago> And yet the suicide rate in Norway is among the highest in the world In relative terms, sure. But in absolute terms it's a tiny fraction of people: 10 per 100k.
- engineeringwoke 4y agoIf I had a nickel for every time the wikipedia link to whataboutism was the correct response to a hacker news comment, I would be rich
- rsanek 4y ago> people have never been happier I always have trouble with this assertion. How do we actually know this? Do we feel that the surveys that are being given can even accurately measure happiness, and that the responses are comparable over time? It feels these questions are difficult to definitively answer, but I see all the time the tendency to reach for references to the World Happiness Report as if it should be taken automatically as an accurate measurement. As far as I know, we don't even have measurements going back that far -- the earliest I've generally been able to find is from the mid/late 1900s. I think it's a bold statement to say people are the happiest ever right now.