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Doin
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Doin asked in Politics & GovernmentGovernment · 8 years ago

Can a republican explain this to me?

http://travel.yahoo.com/ideas/world-s-happiest-cou...

'What does happiness mean to you? At its core it consists of being healthy, having enough food to feed yourself and your family and enough to money to do what you want and buy what you want. For most people that entails a nice home, decent clothes, a car or two, cable TV, good times with family and friends.

Furthermore, happiness means being able to speak what's on your mind without fear, to worship the God of your choosing, and to feel safe and secure in your own home.'

I have to say after living there for 4 years, it was a pretty horrible place to live in comparison to those other countries. But quote me if i m wrong, being a capitalist country, shouldn't it make you more happy, have more freedom?

Update:

'happiness is subjective and the purpose of articles like that is to make the author feel superior to others'

Happiness is universal. I was not happy in your country, which is why i left and took my famaily to canada. lol, what a cop out.

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  • 8 years ago
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    i can explain it in one word - greed

  • 8 years ago

    Surveying happiness is subjective. Such a list depends largely upon what the surveyor considers happiness.

    That you lived in those countries for four years and didn't enjoy yourself there is testament that. Your concept of happiness is different from what they consider happiness.

  • 8 years ago

    happiness is subjective and the purpose of articles like that is to make the author feel superior to others

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