Posted on 04/03/2012 12:44:37 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
The world needs a new economic model based around “gross global happiness” rather than simply making money, according to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Ban, speaking at a meeting organized by the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan called “Happiness and Well-being: Defining a New Economic Paradigm”, said social and environmental factors should be considered, a statement posted on a United Nations website said.
“Gross National Product has long been the yardstick by which economies and politicians have been measured. Yet it fails to take into account the social and environmental costs of so-called progress,” Ban told at the meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York Monday.
"We need a new economic paradigm that recognizes the parity between the three pillars of sustainable development. Social, economic and environmental well-being are indivisible. Together they define gross global happiness,” he added.
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If I had a choice, I’d rather be rich than happy. If you’re rich, you can always pay someone to be happy for you.
Moon needs to find some real “happiness” and move his goatsmellin’ @$$ to North Korea.
What is an objective measurement of “happiness”? Megagrins/year??
how much does wankin.g fool earns each year ?
I am sure he earns more in a month than I do in a year.
how much does wankin.g fool earns each year ?
I am sure he earns more in a month than I do in a year.
This world would be a much happier place if Socialist looters, telephone sanitizers, and their ilk, such as Ban Ki-moon, were bundled up in a Golgafrinchan space ark and sent on their merry way to populate some other planet.
(OK, so it is a somewhat obscure sci-fi reference. Just deal with it.)
UN apparatchiks should lead by example by taking vows of poverty and working for free.
I think a new economic model based around the complete absence of the UN on most of this continent would work much better-talk about raising happiness...
That’s a bad idea right there. You know that a devastating plague spread by dirty telephones will end up wiping us out.
Don’t laugh. The Left has been pushing this for several years. They want to replace measures of the Gross Domestic Product and other leading economic indicators with a “happiness index”.
And from what I can tell, they’re dead serious about it.
They’ll find that money does, indeed, grow on trees - making every one of them filthy rich. Unfortunately, this means the value of the currency will be something like one deciduous forest buying one ship’s peanut, so due to the high degree of leaf availability they will ... burn down the forest.
Might screw up some long-term computing project while they’re at it.
This nonsense is to prepare Americans for a Red Chinese standard of living; Obama has already told us we can’t go on as we have with heating our homes as we see fit.
‘...Ban, speaking at a meeting organized by the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan called “Happiness and Well-being: Defining a New Economic Paradigm”’
Unfortunately, America isn’t in a position to enforce a ban on immigration and prohibit all tourism.
But thanks, Bhutan.
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