This (the measuring, at least) is mostly a solved problem.
I disagree. I’m familiar with the world happiness report. I don’t think that would be an adequate measurement to replace GDP with.
There seems to be annunderlying assimption that GDP is a good meaurement?
In UK we had reduction of life expectancy, wages, trade and production of physical goods while GDP grew. The only sources of GDP growth seem to be never-ending rise of house prices and inequality.
For example being in nature brings you happiness. BUT this is only in well developed countries and among people with enough wealth to live comfortably.
Money does not make you happy but it gives you much more opportunity to be happy.
That’s actually not correct. By that argument the happiest country should be the United States as it has the largest GDP. However the United States ranks #19 on the World Happiness Report: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-...
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-vs-happiness
Chart above clearly shows that mostly increase in GDP results in higher life satisfaction.
That chart clearly shows a handful of countries happier than the US with less GDP per capita…
I would be genuinely surprised if older people are happier than younger people.
Does it really? The derision of millenials seems never ending, along with 'kids these days' and 'back in my days'.
“Soya told the TV programme Getsuyou Kara Yofukashi (Sitting Up Late From Monday) that he had wanted to increase his presence on social media and believed people would prefer to see a "younger beautiful woman" rather than an old "uncle".”