No Unbiased Way To Measure Happiness

Happiness is a phenomenon that encompasses a person’s inner and outer feelings that affect the society as a whole from day to day. The idea of happiness in America is that it can be measured by a person’s income, success, and assets. Others measure happiness as the love that they receive from others, the environment, and their inner day to day emotional state. Happiness can intensify a person’s inner feelings and positively translate those feelings to a counterpart, which can lead to societal success. This would lead to a influx in productivity for employers, because verbal and non verbal communication affects the manner in which their employees do their jobs. Happiness should not only become a goal for society, but it should be a requirement of every individual to hold one another accountable for their daily control of emotions. …show more content…
In the editorial, No Unbiased Way to Measure Happiness, the author stated that measuring happiness would fail to lead to an overall assessment of the nation’s success. However, measuring the nation’s success off of happiness would open the doors for a measurement that varies from the norm, money. GDP measures all money transactions regardless of their importance to gauge the welfare of the society, so it is far too abstract to be considered the all encompassing figure for a nation’s success. Finally, making happiness a measurement will empower people to embrace one another in a way that would spread positivity throughout society, because they would now know how their actions and feelings can affect the success of an entire