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Japan's no-growth society, far from stagnation has delivered rising happiness, at least until Fukushima.
Easterlin (1974) found that while individual happiness increases with rising income, increases in real GDP per capita across society are not associated with rising happiness.
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It strongly reinforces the income-happiness paradox: the fact that, as national incomes rise, happiness does not rise with them.
Specifically, Polgreen and Simpson (2011) used the World Values Survey to discover a U-shaped relationship between emigration rates and happiness: emigration decreases as happiness increases in relatively unhappy countries, but rises as happiness increases in relatively happy countries.
We experience the hero's effort to rise into happiness ("It's not that I feel tremendously low; it's rather that the world around me appears high") as poignantly sincere, and his estrangement as a personal aberration rather than the universe's fault.
Using a mixture of survey evidence and GDP data, the study found a strong link between rising incomes and happiness for poor countries.
But as soon as you get people focused on creating meaningful connections in the midst of their work, or increasing the meaning and depth of their relationships outside of work, we find happiness rising in step with that social connection.
Moreover, the correlation between rising incomes and increasing happiness is much more striking in poor countries — where even a marginal improvement in the quality of life stands out — than in rich ones.
If something good happens, your sense of happiness rises; if something bad happens, it falls.
Happiness rose with income too, but plateaued when people reached an annual salary of $75,000.
"Once we are able to manage and meet people's experiences, we will be able to rise on the happiness index.
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