How living in China taught me to value happiness over GDP | Elisabetta D'Amico | TEDxLUISS
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Elisabetta is from Rome, Italy, and she is currently studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at LUISS Guido Carli University. She is the Student-Speaker of TEDxLUISS 2016 edition and her (r)evolution has a goal: make happiness a development standard. She knows what you’re thinking: “she is so naïve”! Through her speech, she will prove you wrong. Elisabetta is from Rome, Italy, and she is currently studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at LUISS Guido Carli University. She is the Student-Speaker of this TEDxLUISS edition and her (r)evolution has a goal: make happiness a development standard. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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Why you think so is just because you have enough money to support your happiness.
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Stunning
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Stop dreaming ! Get Money first. Then you can talk bullshit about how money is not so important.
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wow. This woman is such an inspiration to everyone in the world. I feel like everyone just needs to hear this.
People are so caught up in the artificial things in life and they forget what's really important.
It's great to know that young people can have such a mature outlook on life.
This girl is going to do great things in life. Bravo -
Well that was the way until the white europeans wiped out the indigenous peoples.
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nice...frm her voice i guess she is vy happy....
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I really liked this idea! It makes me wonder how the importance of GDP has changed throughout history.
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I agree that happiness should be an important metric for world rankings, but even so, I think such a metric would be used by some to discount more tangible issues like GDP and wealth disparity.
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Great talk. Materialism is not happiness.
But we should remember those are still personal decisions even in an economy that produces abundantly. The American system offers the right to pursue happiness - but there is no guarantee to achieve it. And I'm not sure there can be on a national, system-wide level no matter what metrics are used.
Various communist/socialist systems have claimed they can. But the record is depressing.
So peruse happiness wisely. -
it seems nowadays anyone who has a mouth can give a TED talk
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Very cute.
But what has China got to do with what she is talking? -
I agree on the overall idea but things are not that simple. Switzerland scores very well on her 6 metrics, yet we have one of the highest suicide rate. Same goes for Japan and Sweden. I don't think governments could do anything to change that.
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since when are utopic ideas like this naive? oh right, since we started believing in money
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Honest but Naive.
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