Why is everyone so damn happy? - by Rohit
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The intricate realities of happiness research and its interlinkage with the Great Stagnation
There's a piece of rhetoric that's extremely popular and extremely compelling. It goes something like this. Sometime over the past four to five decades, we moved into an economy that absolutely doesn't help the working men and women. As a result the price for essentials have soared beyond all recognition, income has fallen for labour, it has fallen even further for those lower down the wealth scale, and most of the gains have all gone to the top 1%. All of this has absolutely made everyone mad, and that’s caused all sorts of problems politically, economically and socially. But one piece of…
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