Re: Future of online fora

On Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:48:25 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 05:19:27 -0400, zen cycle
<funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
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On 4/7/2025 8:09 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 4/7/2025 5:52 PM, floriduh dumbass wrote:

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People who don't like 'things as they are' include communist
idealists, Libertarians and jihadis.  Over to you.

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But where are the people who are happy with "convention?"
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C'est bon
Soloman

 
 
 

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world
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I looked up how they rated "happiness"and it seems to be based on, GDP
per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom,
generosity, and corruption.
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From, reading their site
https://worldhappiness.report/faq/
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it seems to be more of a level of satisfaction of citizens who have
never lived in foreign countries and thus are not capable of comparing
life here wit life over there.

Happiness is, of course, subjective, and it also depends on observed
comparisons. In other words, "compared to what?"

I suspect that the Native Americans were pretty happy before the
Europeans arrived here, but if you took the "happy" people from
Finland and made them live as those Native Americans did, there would
be much unhappiness.

I think unity is also a factor. If you believe that the people around
you are living pretty much the same lifestyle as you, you'd be more
inclined to be happy than if you looked around and saw many people
living much better than you.

All in all, I think a "study" asking people if they're happy is
inconsequential nonsense.

--
C'est bon
Soloman