5 ms·
Poster summed it up well: "If our economic system was great you wouldn't have to pay think tanks to tell people how great their lot is." We're not healthy, me
by apercu 2y ago
Poster summed it up well:
"If our economic system was great you wouldn't have to pay think tanks to tell people how great their lot is."
We're not healthy, mentally or otherwise.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoThat is specious reasoning. It might not be perfect, but it is hard to show a better option with empirical success.
- dannyobrien 2y agoWell, it's possible that certain groups in society -- in particular, highly-educated individuals in Western societies -- have become outliers in how positively they imagine the state of the world to be. (This was Hans Rosling's conclusion, which led to the formation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapminder_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapminder_Foundation ). It's probably not going to convince you for me to pull more stats from World In Data, but according to this, people do, in general, seem to be fairly happy with their lot https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction