Most of the USA is actually happiest or has highest well-being on the planet
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Minnesota, whose capital was fucking razed not even half a decade ago, is the second happiest?
There was a guy on KiA2 whose house was nearly burned down by the BLM mob. A Trump-supporter.
A few months later, he completely changed his mind on everything, supported BLM and Biden.
MN is a big state. As is true for other states, the asshole leftists are concentrated in the largest cities.
Minneapolis is not representative of MN as a whole, which is fairly middle-of-the-road or conservative, but their metro area contains probably as many people as the rest of the state.
It's interesting that 6 of the top 7 US states are Midwestern. Why Hawaiians are ranked number one is pretty self-evident.
As someone from Illinois who has spent time in ND and MN, I can appreciate the sentiment.
The rankings themselves are sketchy but it's fun to speculate why people in one area might be "happier" than others.
how is the USA rated 150 overall, but there are no states below it?
None of these rankings make any sense whatsoever. Am I to believe that New Yorkers are happier than the Spanish.
Have you ever been here? That's just northern Europeans.
Cold.
How does one measure happiness? You can't measure it. Most people ask questions like "are you happy? Rate on a scale from 1-10". That's not a measure of happiness. In a Brave New World, the people would have said they were a 10 when it came to happiness because they didn't know any better. If you're propagandized to believe you are happy then you might believe you are even if you aren't. What is "normal"? What is clown world? If you think clown world is normal and someone asked you what normal is you'd answer clown world but is clown world actually normal? We haven't even touched on cultural differences. In some cultures being happy is not seen as a good thing the same way American culture is because if you're happy it means you're too comfortable and not displaying enough humility etc... Culture can impact how people answer.
Any measure of happiness is flawed.
And your measure is well-being which uses worthless measures more often than not like linking post-secondary education to well-being or literacy. Someone can be illiterate and still better off than someone who is literate, same for being educated or not. Also, material possessions and GDP/income, etc... doesn't necessarily translate over to "well-being".
All these measures at the end of the day are usually entirely flawed.
What a load of bullshit.