Past a basic level needed to be out of pain (well below $70,000 per capita), there is no correlation between per-capita income and happiness or health; Indonesia has a happier population than the US despite much lower income and health, and the US has a five-year lower life expectancy than Canada and comparable developed countries.
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“Indonesia... has a much happier uh population and in terms of per capita income and in terms of health it's much lower but they have a much happier population”
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