In the editorial, No Unbiased Way to Measure Happiness, the author stated that measuring happiness would fail to lead to an overall assessment of the nation’s success. However, measuring the nation’s success off of happiness would open the doors for a measurement that varies from the norm, money. GDP measures all money transactions regardless of their importance to gauge the welfare of the society, so it is far too abstract to be considered the all encompassing figure for a nation’s success. Finally, making happiness a measurement will empower people to embrace one another in a way that would spread positivity throughout society, because they would now know how their actions and feelings can affect the success of an entire
In the editorial, No Unbiased Way to Measure Happiness, the author stated that measuring happiness would fail to lead to an overall assessment of the nation’s success. However, measuring the nation’s success off of happiness would open the doors for a measurement that varies from the norm, money. GDP measures all money transactions regardless of their importance to gauge the welfare of the society, so it is far too abstract to be considered the all encompassing figure for a nation’s success. Finally, making happiness a measurement will empower people to embrace one another in a way that would spread positivity throughout society, because they would now know how their actions and feelings can affect the success of an entire