alt Hacker NewsI'm a Finn. I personally interpret that survey as Finland being the least unhappy place. There's a social safety net, health care is taken care of, you know your life won't get destroyed by the slightest misfortune, you get a good education for free, your surroundings are generally safe and well maintained, you feel safe & are fairly certain nothing bad will happen, there are people around you who share your values, life is good.
Things that for example the article author's favorite USA does not have. But of course a Murkin' can't accept that. I fully expect him to gripe that somehow the Corruption Perceptions Index is also somehow unfair to his favorite country too, and just cannot be right.
You had me at blaming "elites".
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> Things that for example the article author's favorite USA does not have. But of course a Murkin' can't accept that.
These things are all a proxy for: "America pays for most of our defence and medical advancement research, so we can just spend our money on ourselves. And we aren't glued to a 3rd world continent with a hard-to-defend border."
Americans definitely can accept that that's the case.
Kind of a "Minimax" interpretation. Whereas in the USA, when you hit bottom it's so low that you probably ain't comin' up again.