telegraph.co.uk — Gross domestic product, inflation, unemployment- these are old-fashioned, Anglo-Saxon indicators of national wellbeing, says the president of France. From now on, the country's economic progress will be measured in terms of happiness.
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Closed AccountSep 17, 2009
The owners may work only a few hours but trust me, upper management works their asses off, I know at my job they are there first in the morning, last to leave, and many times have to fly out halfway across the US for days on end.
jsebrechSep 17, 2009
No, they're just annoyed at people who insist on getting their personal happiness by depriving others of theirs.
Closed AccountSep 17, 2009
Here let me pay you in happiness. Oh s**t, I'm broke. brb masturbating.
jsebrechSep 17, 2009
I do wonder though, if everyone worked just enough to buy food and their basic necessities.How would the road infrastructure get maintained to get that food and those necessities to your nearest store? How would you defend that home without police services, a justice system and a prison system? How would you save the home in case of fire without a fire department?
zacharytelschowSep 17, 2009
"At first reading this sounds stupid, but when you really get down to it whats the goal of improved GDP and such?"A higher GDP, and the higher personal income and wealth that correlate to it, allow people the freedom to reduce their personal workload, save for the future, or increase time or money spent on leisure time. The goal of a higher GDP is a higher quality of life.
peppermintpigSep 17, 2009
A car company makes more money selling cars to the average individual, not designing and building super luxury cars in the hope that a rich individual might be interested.Provided competition is uninhibited, this should lead to the lowest costs for customers.It's fascinating how jsebrech conflates profit making with fraud on others, as if they're entitled to something beyond freedom from violence and coercion, but makes no mention of the largest corrupting influence which abuses individuals, whether they own businesses or not: Government.
murxSep 19, 2009
@PeppermintPig"Profit tells me I am satisfying a market demand and making someone happy."Wrong - profit means you get more then you give, double your investment in five years, whatever...And if you want profit you dont WANT to satisfy the market, you want scarcity, you want to drive the price up while reducing your own production expenses - through productivity is only ONE means usually an expensive one. Paying less wages, killing free market through monopolies, cartells or 'special privileges through laws' are often cheaper.Profit means just nothing. Well, maybe it means how much you f**k over someone else...
murxSep 19, 2009
Well...maybe if the gouverment doesn't pay the people enough 'happiness' they might find themselves between a rock and a hard space.You know, like guillotines, fires, pitchforks - but the modern version of course...