This subject was explored on the CBS 60 Minutes newsmagazine report on Sunday evening 17 February with some interesting results. All the nations with greater happiness have more compassionate and generous governments that all but eliminate poverty and economic dispair. These nations have established a social safety net for their citizenry with broad rewards and not the endless rut of the rat race like what is in America. I have always felt I have been living in the wrong kind of nation economically as I abhor competitiveness and the rat race for the most part and have never felt rewarded, satisfied, and fulfilled in any of the work I have had as an adult and the American economic system of which I am forced to be a part of has been an constant eternal struggle and the cause of frequent episodes of depression and mental illness. I guess being a misfit has its price for someone like me being in a nation like the US economically. Reading a story like this and seeing the report on 60 Minutes affirms that I was put in the wrong place on this planet.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061113093726.htm
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