The Happiest Country on Earth is...

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A ridiculous list, it reads like a list of places rich people like to go unwind and see how they think everyone ELSE should live. Just glance through the top, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand? Great for vacation, but approximately ZERO people from the "New" Economics Foundation would trade their 108th-ranked happiness for the life of someone born in most any of their top fifty countries.

I'll take freedom, self-determination, choice of career pursuits, healthy kids, and the rat race-- and so would most of the happy champions on the list if they had a choice beyond subsistence farming or fishing. Living nearly as poorly as an animal does tend to leave a small environmental footprint, which appears to be the largest criterion in the calculation of "happiness."

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