Social scientists designing and conducting value-free scientific reports on human happiness is a sad business. But as if we need science to confirm what we can all see with our own lying eyes, a 2024 World Happiness Report finds America has fallen out of the top 20 happiest countries in the world. Most of the rest of the world seems to be coming to America regardless, so, in the spirit of Ben Franklin, maybe we should put up large signs at what we used to call a border, announcing: “You Won’t Be Happy Here!”
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