As an aside, I still can't beleive we're using 'shit-hole' in this way because that man said it once. I myself am guilty, even referring to my own home country

As an aside, I still can't beleive we're using 'shit-hole' in this way because that man said it once. I myself am guilty, even referring to my own home country at time as such without realizing it. But back to the topic, I think you're right about GNH and it's implications, especially when compared to Aotearoa and their efforts in establishing a more genuine level (rather than measure) of a literal 'national happiness'. As a last touch, your comment (both words used, and in what it discusses) is comically ironic in that McKinsey is currently under investigation in my country for advising in a project that ended up landing us a few million dollars poorer and without a functioning public transport system that we could genuinely really benefit from right at the moment.