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How do you know Finland isn’t already doing that?
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Submitted 7 months ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
There’s been no war here and no terraforming event. The environment is stable. It’s the Pax. The G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Well, it works. The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There’s 30 million people here, and they all just let themselves die.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Shiny
Obi@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I knew I recognised this but I needed your comment to place it.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Making a new country is much harder than that. You have to get a plurality of existing countries to say you’re a country before you can join the club. See also: Taiwan.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 months ago
I’m pretty sure this is several sci-fi novels
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Apparently antidepressants don’t make you happy. They just make you feel nothing instead of depressed.
erin@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Please, do not repeat this, because it's terrible advice that causes people that otherwise could benefit greatly from antidepressants to avoid them completely. Don't spread misinformation.
It's true that antidepressants don't make you happy, but they don't categorically make you feel nothing. Every person works differently, and a drug that for some regulates emotion and prevents stress in others suppresses emotional extremes completely. For me, Lexapro made me feel nothing. For my mother, it made her feel normal again. I have a combination of drugs that make me feel normal, but for my wife, might make her feel awful. Antidepressants don't "make you feel nothing." Some might have that effect, but it's the job of a psychiatrist to find the right blend for each person. It took a few tries to find mine. If your antidepressants make you feel nothing, you need different antidepressants.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Imagine if antidepressants = happinesses. Lol
Read their name again dude. They don’t give you anything, they prevent shit.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
yep, and sometimes they give a lil something too. it’s sort of like picking which depression symptoms you want to deal with. you got symptoms XYZ and hate them, but wouldn’t mind symptoms ABC? try this drug, swap symptoms! eg no appetite, use the drug that makes you eat nonstop. insomnia because life sucks, use the sedating one.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
We had to force it on the grumpy old men, but they are happily sedated now.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Take away the booze and I wonder how and where these rates would tank, lol. The material comfort is definitely nice, and a good chunk of happy living though.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 7 months ago
That’s not what they mean by “happiness” when they say Finland is the happiest country in the world. It’s more about overall life satisfaction.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
It’s an interesting approach to studying something as hard to define as happiness, but it does make sense to me. Their own explanation:
How is your ranking calculated?
Our happiness ranking is based on a single life evaluation question called the Cantril Ladder:
Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top.
The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you.
On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?
This question is both democratic and universal. Rather than constructing an index from multiple metrics, the Cantril Ladder empowers people to make their own judgements about what matters most, regardless of their culture and background.
The question does not mention concepts like happiness, wellbeing, or satisfaction, so it can be easily translated and understood in many different languages.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I’ll never be above 8 or below 2.
No matter how bad it could get, there could always “but also there’s snakes on the loose”
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Damn, this question is kind of a mind fuck. I could spend a long time thinking about my answer.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 7 months ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Isnt that the plot to we happy few and being high = / = happiness.
Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
They didn’t really ask us about our happiness, but rather just analyzed a bunch of facts. It looks like dor them “the ability leas a safe family life” is what is most important for happiness.
But if you.don’t have a family, this place is worse than, well, almost anything in Europe.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
They didn’t really ask us about our happiness, but rather just analyzed a bunch of facts
Incorrect. World Happiness Report uses a poll question (conducted by Gallup) as the sole basis for the ranking.
The other stuff isn’t used for making the ranking but rather:
The six metrics are used to explain the estimated extent to which each of these factors contribute to increasing life satisfaction when compared to the hypothetical nation of Dystopia, but they themselves do not have an effect on the total score reported for each country.
Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Okay, thanks for the correction. Then it’s a bit funny the result has ended up the way it is.
Probably the reason is then that we are taught not to complain about what we get. If you are asked whether you are happy with how things are not, you are supposed to assume that things are already done as well as reasonably possible and, therefore, as well as they can reasonably be. Therefore, you are happy with things. Of course, you might be exceptionally depressed, but you will still be happy about your how your country is run, because you know it’s, by defintion, run as well as it can be.
But, maybe I’m still wrong. I now tried finding that one question in their report, but couldn’t find it in a reasonable time. What has the question been?
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
The hard part would be finding a place to make your country that would be legally recognised as not part of another country’s territory. Maybe construct an artificial island in the ocean, or a floating island made of essentially large boats, or settle in Antarctica and hope when the treaty goes up for renewal you can get recognised?
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 7 months ago
I don’t think the people who do the happiness statistic could see past the “forcibly inject” part.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Only the first one is forced.
After that, you’re begging for it.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
just like heroin! first ones free, after that it’s all you can do to feel normal again
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Its called the Geneva Suggestions.
brokenlcd@feddit.it 7 months ago
we happy few has entered the chat
crandlecan@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Epstein’s estate entered the chat
Epstein’s estate starts typing …Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well, now you’ve just gone and ruined it.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Yeah, Kensington PA is famously a paradise.