https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2024-03/India%20emerges%20most%20optimistic%20market%20in%20March%202024%20-%20Ipsos%20What%20Worries%20the%20World%20Global%20Monthly%20Survey_March%2027%202024.pdf
Weird how they decided not to poll China given these were the results from last year
https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2023-03/Ipsos%20Global%20Happiness%20Survey%20-%20Press%20Release.pdf
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It was also a bit of an issue in the occupied puppet state of "South Korea", where most people are NOT happy with their capitalist hellscape.
Indeed, it's going to be kind of funny if things start looking up in DPRK thanks to trade with Russia while they keep getting worse in occupied Korea.
Can you explain what makes this "Ipsos" report different than the "World Happiness Report" ? I wanna steal this graphic for later uses if I can understand how to defend it.
Do you think that the Ipsos report is a better measure of happiness?
I'm a bit surprised how Mexico and Brazil show high levels of happiness. But I do understand that (from what I know) it seems like family connections have higher importance in these countries so there is a bigger social safety net.
The report from 2023 focused on happiness, while 2024 focuses on whether people feel the country is moving in the right direction or not. They're not measuring exactly the same thing, but both things are obviously related. I'm not sure how good their methodology is, and how representative their sample is. It is worth noting that happiness is an inherently subjective thing that depends on tons of factors such as culture, expectations, etc. So, it's possible for people in a country that's relatively poor to feel happy because their needs and expectations are met.
I'm talking about the World Happiness Report
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report
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India's a 3rd world country with a growing economy. What am I missing?
India is also capitalist with massive inequality, and rising nationalism. I wouldn't call that moving in the right direction myself.
Yea but their living standards are going up, so understandably they're going to feel they're going in the correct direction
your logic is like saying that 1800s US settlers are dumb for being happy, because a disproportionate amount of the empty genocided continent belonged to rich people instead of them and would inevitably turn into a clusterfuck centuries down the line. They ain't care, europe was a crowded shithole
Living standards in India aren't exactly going up at any appreciable rate though, and the data on poverty rates is very questionable https://www.dw.com/en/indias-poverty-debate-truth-behind-the-numbers/a-68062699
I guess if they just polled the 1% of people raking it in, then I'm sure they're really happy.
The fact that 21% of my country's population thinks things are going in the right direction here is fucking insane to me. The UK is literally one of the worst countries in the world right now.
Everything I've read about the UK recently makes it sound like hell on earth.
It pretty much is. People are literally pulling their own teeth out because they can't get dental care, the cost of living crisis is so extreme that at one point I was spending £50 a week on food for just myself, the NHS is basically on its last legs due to conservative incompetence and people are dying of easily treatable cancers and illnesses because by the time they're actually seen to it's already too late. On top of that our government is sending money to Ukraine and supporting Israel, our politicians are turning the lynchings of trans people into a game of political football, and the entire political system is literally primarily based on documents that were written between the 13th and 18th centuries. If you think America sucks I genuinely do not see the UK surviving this decade.
Yeah, that's grim af, I do think UK breaking up is a very likely scenario at this point given that the current political system has no chance of turning things around.
I think Scotland will be the first to achieve independence from England since a good amount of people are starting to get sick of parliament. The UK used an obsolete law that's never been enforced just to make life harder for trans people and that's kind of been a big catalyst in Scottish independence gaining traction again. I don't think Northern Ireland will last much longer in the UK after that. The inevitable abolition of the monarchy will put an end to the UK since we wouldn't even be a Kingdom anymore. Either way this is definitely the end of the United KIngdom now and it's going to happen within the century.
too vague of a question. hell half of America would respond with "hell no, this country is falling apart, [something about white genocide]"
Although the conservative European immigrants would use racial equility as their reason for their dissatisfaction, do they realized how blessed and spoiled they are? The European immigrants had gained free stolen land, free child labor from Indian Residential fake Schools since the 1850s that could continue in secret, free stolen inheritance from state-sponsored abducted First Nation Native American children, authority to censor the widespread evidences of fake school death camps that keep on appearing, election of war criminals that pass their savage practices to Nazi German without consequence, free high quality healthcare from unethical experimenations of First Nation children in fake schools, and the opportunity to avoid poor living condition according to their own individual choice.
Although the conservative European immigrants would use racial equility as their reason for their dissatisfaction, do they realized how blessed and spoiled they are?
no
18% of my countrymen believe that we are on the right track... but it is a democracy, riiiiight?
Welcome to the enchanting realm of procedural democracy, where the essence lies in adhering to the process rather than focusing on meaningful results or substance.
wow Argentina is surprisingly high on there
also what the hell is going on in Peru? what happened?!?
I'm curious about Peru as well, and maybe the poll was conducted before Argentina started collapsing.
