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\"00011\"<\/a>The green party in England and Wales wants a new measure of wellbeing they have announced this week.\u00a0 Since GDP<\/a> has captured economics in the modern age some people have been searching for a better measure of happiness and economic growth than this measure.\u00a0 As I blogged on last week endless economic growth is clearly impossible on a finite planet so something is going to have to give sometime.<\/p>\n

Up until now the alternatives have been “happiness”.\u00a0 This is course subjective but a very long term study has found that people in Western societies have stopped getting happier over the last 30 years or so (not necessarily more\u00a0miserable though).\u00a0 It does look like a certain level of materialism makes you happy but beyond a certain level of affluence there is no improvement in happiness levels.\u00a0 As the late great Spike Milligan said “Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery”.<\/p>\n

The greens want a new measure of wellbeing to be to measure happiness by the use of a free time index.\u00a0 So the idea is how much free time you have after work commute etc.\u00a0 The idea is to shift away from the time\/work obsessed culture to one of leisure, community and family.\u00a0 The greens support a 4 day week and a universal basic income<\/a>.\u00a0 I broadly agree with the idea.\u00a0 There is evidence productivity would rise over a 4 day week and its a way of sharing the jobs out as automation arrives.\u00a0 My only caveats are it sounds a bit woolly and it depends what people do with their leisure time.\u00a0 As I blogged about in the last post its a bit difficult to do anything without damaging the environment.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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