French Government Measures Happiness

We live in an age of statistics and, more importantly, we are governed by governments who use statistics to make decisions.

The problem has often been that these statistics do not really reflect how we feel.

The French President Nicolas Sarkozy, however, is trying to change this. He wants to make the happiness of the French people one of the statistics that he uses when making decisions.

More importantly, he wants to make it a measurement of economic growth. Nicolas believes that there is a great contradiction in France at the moment because the statistics show that the economy, and life in general, are improving, but in reality for French people, life seems to be much harder than it was previously.

Therefore, by measuring happiness, Nicolas hopes to bridge this contradiction.

We live in a world where politicians are constantly trying to give us what we want so that we vote for them at the next election. Finally, a politician has realized that all we want is to live happy and trouble-free lives, and we are hopeful that Nicolas achieves this in France and that other nations apply a similar principle.