Why Are Europeans (So Much) Happier Than Americans?
What Makes a Society a Genuinely Happy Place — and How America Got it Wrong
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9 min readAug 12, 2019
There’s a question that deserves to be thought about — which we don’t consider often enough. It’s a simple one. Why are Europeans so much happier than Americans? Or, conversely, why are Europeans the happiest people in the world…in human history?