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Wealth Of A Nation; Happiness V GDP
Topic Started: Nov 14 2010, 09:32 PM (2,170 Views)
Skeletor
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In addition to this, none of these studies of opinion that are supposed to represent me, or you, or us, have asked me, or you, or us.
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Naebody
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I've been asked. My guess, S, is that men with clipboards avoid you in the street. And, to be honest, so would I.
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Waldo Jeffers
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findus
Nov 26 2010, 08:08 PM
Studies* have shown that people judge themselves relative to their peers

Indeed they do. A good questionnaire would not just ask "are you happy?" or "how happy are you?", but seek a number of objective, constant measures of "happiness", "wellbeing", "contentedness", "satisfaction" or whatever you want to call it.

Whatever is done with the results has got to be better than implementing policy created to suit the limited issues and circumstances that prevail during election campaigns.

As Robert Kennedy said (my italics, quoted by David Cameron)
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"For too long we seem to have surrendered personal excellence and community value in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product now is over 800 billion dollars a year, but that gross national product, if we judge the United States of America by that, that gross national product counts air pollution, and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic squall. It counts Napalm, and it counts nuclear warheads, and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our city. It counts Whitman's rifles and Speck's Knifes and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet, the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play; it does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worth while. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans."
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Naebody
Nov 27 2010, 09:53 AM
I've been asked. My guess, S, is that men with clipboards avoid you in the street. And, to be honest, so would I.

My guess is that you live in London or the surrounding areas?
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YazooArab
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I got a phone call today saying they were going some market research. I told them to f*ck off because I didn't want their double glazing. Do you think they marked me down as unhappy?
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whatsthatonyourback
Nov 27 2010, 08:43 PM
Robert Kennedy
 
"For too long we seem to have surrendered personal excellence and community value in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product now is over 800 billion dollars a year, but that gross national product, if we judge the United States of America by that, that gross national product counts air pollution, and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic squall. It counts Napalm, and it counts nuclear warheads, and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our city. It counts Whitman's rifles and Speck's Knifes and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet, the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play; it does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worth while. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans."

Fantastic.
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