{"id":207,"date":"2003-10-03T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-03T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/10\/nigerians_are_the_happiest_people_on_earth\/"},"modified":"2003-10-03T00:55:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-03T04:55:00","slug":"nigerians_are_the_happiest_people_on_earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/03\/nigerians_are_the_happiest_people_on_earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians are the Happiest People on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new study of more than 65 countries published in the UK’s New Scientist magazine suggests that the happiest people in the world live in Nigeria – and the least happy, in Romania<\/a>. The U.S. came in a respectable 16th<\/sup>. I’d like to see a graph of happiness vs. per capita income. I bet the shape of that graph would surprise a lot of people. The last line of the article alludes to exactly that: “Survey after survey has shown that the desire for material goods, which has increased hand in hand with average income, is a happiness suppressant.” Or as KRS-ONE once said “(Material) Love’s gonna get ya…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new study of more than 65 countries published in the UK’s New Scientist magazine suggests that the happiest people in the world live in Nigeria – and the least happy, in Romania. The U.S. came in a respectable 16th. I’d like to see a graph of happiness vs. per capita income. I bet the… Continue reading Nigerians are the Happiest People on Earth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/13\/friendster_network_graph\/","url_meta":{"origin":207,"position":0},"title":"Friendster Network Graph","date":"August 13, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"No, that's not an ink blot. It's a graph of a Friendster network which was built from the results of a robot crawling that network. 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