100% Happiness. Satisfaction guaranteed, or you’ll be forcibly injected with tge happiness drug 🫠
(I just thought of antidepressants = happiness drug and this random thought popped up lmao)
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.
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I knew I recognised this but I needed your comment to place it.
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 and I can assure you that this isn’t achieveable by drugs alone.
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.
Imagine if antidepressants = happinesses. Lol
Read their name again dude. They don’t give you anything, they prevent shit.
How do you know Finland isn’t already doing that?
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.
Yeah, Kensington PA is famously a paradise.
I’m pretty sure this is several sci-fi novels
Apparently antidepressants don’t make you happy. They just make you feel nothing instead of depressed.
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.
I don’t think the people who do the happiness statistic could see past the “forcibly inject” part.
Only the first one is forced.
After that, you’re begging for it.
just like heroin! first ones free, after that it’s all you can do to feel normal again
