Comments on: Gross National Happiness: The Cat’s Meow http://www.deeshaa.org/2005/10/22/gross-national-happiness-the-cats-meow/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:41:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tom http://www.deeshaa.org/2005/10/22/gross-national-happiness-the-cats-meow/comment-page-1/#comment-3990 Tom Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:41:55 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2005/10/22/gross-national-happiness-the-cats-meow/#comment-3990 Trackback This post has been cited in Blogmandu, <a href="http://zenunbound.com/2005/10/roundup-for-oct-17-23-2005_23.html" rel="nofollow">Roundup for Oct 17 - 23, 2005</a>. Trackback

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]]> By: Tom http://www.deeshaa.org/2005/10/22/gross-national-happiness-the-cats-meow/comment-page-1/#comment-3981 Tom Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:08:43 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2005/10/22/gross-national-happiness-the-cats-meow/#comment-3981 I don't think that GNH is any more silly than America's entrenched and meaningful Consumer Confidence Index, which is used to forecast future economic difficulties. Of course, as with all things American, dollars are involved -- but dollars aren't what's measured here, directly, it is how people <i>feel</i> about their economic security. I love the idea of GNH. Perhaps GNS, Gross National Suffering, would be a good measurement tool too. Perhaps with both measurements there are ways to objectively get at these issues, but I don't see anything wrong with surveys that, pretty much, get a random sample of peoples response to this question: "So, how ya doin'?" I don’t think that GNH is any more silly than America’s entrenched and meaningful Consumer Confidence Index, which is used to forecast future economic difficulties.

Of course, as with all things American, dollars are involved — but dollars aren’t what’s measured here, directly, it is how people feel about their economic security.

I love the idea of GNH. Perhaps GNS, Gross National Suffering, would be a good measurement tool too. Perhaps with both measurements there are ways to objectively get at these issues, but I don’t see anything wrong with surveys that, pretty much, get a random sample of peoples response to this question: “So, how ya doin’?”

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