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manqiangrexue
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That's a bit nuts to be honest. Work pressure is very high in China and China is locked in a fierce competition, one in which we are the less dominant power so how would happiness rank number 1? It would have to be in a place like Qatar or something where everyone gets loads of free money, has no work to do and there is no national rivalry.
broadsword
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That kind of lifestyle is more conducive to misery than happiness.
manqiangrexue
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You've clearly never seen the Qataris. Having total financial security with nothing you need to do doesn't mean that you spend all day with nothing to do. To the contrary, it's just every day in a house of luxury filled with the free time to come up with fun ideas and the funds to make them happen. People who pretend that life needs strong work purpose to be happy are just coping with the 9-5 rat race/daily grind trying to convince themselves that they don't wanna be the guy sipping wine and sport fishing all day on his yacht.
happiness isn't doing no work and getting free stuff. it is about improvement and finding meaning to your life. their methodology is on pg. 9. Basically they use a subjective satisfaction ranking.
China ranked high in satisfaction with children, relationships, personal safety, social life, feeling appreciated, health and national economic/political situation. In fact, China has the highest rate of feeling appreciated and has 80%+ satisfaction with social life. The only countries with better social life are Netherlands, Thailand and Saudi Arabia, with UAE and Indonesia tying.
In China it's actually really easy to make and keep friends. People keep in contact with high school and college friends all the time even if they move around. People change jobs less often so you might see coworkers for decades, and lots of companies are much more personal in management style. That is an "inefficiency" but people don't feel like they're a disposable cog in a corporate machine.
Then the only other countries to have >50% in national economic/political situation satisfaction is Australia, Belgium, India, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. Expected.
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manqiangrexue
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I simply don't believe it. Chinese kids study themselves to death to be the number 1 in the class with Gaokao stress going through the roof. Weekends and after school time is spent going from piano class to chess class to taekwondo class to swimming class. Chinese culture is one where people never feel satisfied and always want more money, more power, more accomplishment. China's per capita resources are still fairly low with many low wage workers far from being able to afford a comfortable life. This is a perfect recipe for continuous improvement, NOT of complacent happiness. I just don't believe it. I want to feel that China can achieve this sometime in the future when robotics ease work pressure while producing great excess and China holds an unassailable lead on the global stage, but that time is not now. Right now, we're in the eye of the storm battling the US and immersed in an inferno of hard work and exertion.
Maybe happiness in China now just means a high morale. Sometimes when locked in an intense project or work, but the team is being well lead, and everyone has each other's backs, and people can see that the project is progressing positively, people can feel really good.
Or being Chinese is beautiful.
I think a Chinese civilian may have flown a drone over the JS Izumo, like literally right over the deck and potentially landed on it too lmao.
Not 100% on the authenticity of the claims yet but looks pretty legit. Also very funny if true.
Not 100% on the authenticity of the claims yet but looks pretty legit. Also very funny if true.