<aside> ✍️ Rough notes taken from the vignettes that inspired me as I watched The Economics of Happiness

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Ladakh people case study → exposure to outside economic pressures created intense competition that broke down community and connection to nature.

Globalisation is the deregulation of trade and finance in order to allow business and banks to operate globally.

Extract money, resources and cheap labour. TNCs so large that they control governments, dictate economic policy and shape people's world views. Big corps demanding ever more deregulation.

Rising levels of depression in the west (2-10 times). Job hours getting longer. More travel. Longer commutes. Access at any time to work.

Certain looks and lifestyle we measure ourselves up to. Bigger, better, more but does it bring us happiness?

% of Americans who said they are happy with their lives peaks in 1956 and goes downhill since then steadily.

Globalisation is creating a very lonely planet.

Corporations are raising our children. Food choices, entertainment choices, what they buy, what they care about. People lose their own identity right from childhood.

They no longer want to be associated with their own culture.