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What's Happiness got to do with Inequality?

7/10/2021

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Few may remember it today, but the Happiness Movement got its start because the use of Gross Domestic Product or GDP (the sum of all goods and services produced in a year) by governments leads to inequality. In the last four or five decades, our reliance on GDP to guide economic and social policy has lead to the suffering and misery of people who do not get richer as GDP rises, but instead, get poorer.  It reinforces racial inequality. It legitimatizes injustice. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and our justice, social and cultural systems celebrate the rich and blame the poor. To make matters worse, those who get poorer can least afford it, and those who get richer lose touch with how bad things are for the poor.  Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi, three economists, summed some of these findings up in a report conveniently known as the Stiglitz -Sen-Fitoussi Commission Report. 
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The genesis, purpose and aim of the Happiness Movement is to measurably define inequality and then, using a measurement-driven-approach, find and implement solutions that cure inequality through improving people’s wellbeing.  

While the Happiness Movement may seen like a frivolous endeavor aimed at making already happy people a little happier, it's just the opposite. It is as serious as the words of the US Declaration of Independence, which heralded a revolution that changed how governments operated globally: all people have an inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  Happiness is economic and social equality.
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    • Our Partners
    • Happiness Index Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
    • For Researchers
    • Privacy Policy
  • How to Be Happy
    • Take the Happiness Survey
    • Grow Happiness
    • How to be happy when you are unhappy
    • Love Your Body
    • Be the Change You Want To See >
      • The Happiness Policy Handbook
    • A Course in Systems Change >
      • systems
      • values
      • measuringhappiness
      • individualhappiness
      • needs
      • sustainability
      • policy
  • How You Can Change the World
    • Learn About the Happiness Movement
    • Spread the Happiness Word
    • Convening Your Happiness Team
    • Use Our Happiness Index Survey
    • Your Happiness Report Card
  • How We Are Changing the World
    • Happiness Report Cards
    • Bringing the Wellbeing Agenda to Tourism >
      • Planet Happiness
    • Happiness & Wellbeing Learning Collaborative
    • Bringing Happiness to AI
    • Happiness Roundtable
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