> How do you know that people in Buthan were actually happy? Honestly, that's kind of irrelevant to my comment. My points were to 1) decry a kind of obnoxious

> How do you know that people in Buthan were actually happy? Honestly, that's kind of irrelevant to my comment. My points were to 1) decry a kind of obnoxious schadenfreude and 2) posit that our society is likely to lead to unhappiness because of it's focus on individual choice and technology to make various things "easier." I do respect Bhutan for trying to take a different path, and I suspect they erred by not excluding enough (e.g. allowing the cancer of social media).