Comments on: Gross National Happiness http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2007/07/05/gross-national-happiness/ English, Rationalist and Liberal Conservative Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:27:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: david http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2007/07/05/gross-national-happiness/#comment-18871 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:47:54 +0000 http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2007/07/05/gross-national-happiness/#comment-18871 That's a really interesting thought. It's not as if any single government program can make people genuinely happy. We're well aware that money doesn't make anyone but the extremely poor happier, and yet it seems to be the most obvious thing a government could do. There are certainly concrete things that could be done though, quality of life issues like good health care for everyone, efficient transportation systems, providing adequate public safety. These aren't needed for happiness, but one could assume that happiness becomes easier when they're in place. Indeed I think there are certain requisites that governments do not yet provide efficiently which could decrease dissatisfaction, but beyond those, there is little they can do. That’s a really interesting thought. It’s not as if any single government program can make people genuinely happy. We’re well aware that money doesn’t make anyone but the extremely poor happier, and yet it seems to be the most obvious thing a government could do.

There are certainly concrete things that could be done though, quality of life issues like good health care for everyone, efficient transportation systems, providing adequate public safety. These aren’t needed for happiness, but one could assume that happiness becomes easier when they’re in place.

Indeed I think there are certain requisites that governments do not yet provide efficiently which could decrease dissatisfaction, but beyond those, there is little they can do.

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