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Bhutan’s implementation of GDH aside. What matters more than happiness? Surely any other metric is just an (often misguided) approximation.

I mean, people can be happy out of ignorance, and that ignorance can include things that contribute to high child mortality.

I'm not sure we should be ok with high child mortality, just because people are happy.

No one is suggesting that and no one is suggesting that happiness is somehow the result of this.

I'm the comment I'm reply to said "What matters more than happiness?".

The point is, plenty of stuff matters more than just happiness.

I see, thank you for clarifying.