fossilesqueMar 17

A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder

https://mander.xyz/post/49054454

one water please - Mander

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4415605 [https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4415605] > I noticed that several socialist countries took out loans from the IMF (Yugoslavia, Poland, Romania) even though there was an understanding that the IMF is a predatory organisation. I assume it is connected to the wave of liberalisation in the 1980s, but would be interested in a more concrete breakdown of the logic and context behind it, or articles/links on the topic.

Show threadPhoenixz

Well so this is almost 3 decades old, but still…

What?

Why? The abstract doesn’t really explain the why, why would you want to do that?

Mar 17 at 6:56pmWeb
Show threadIron LynxMar 21
The abstract suggests that happiness is a statistical anomaly, and in its final lines they suggest that “One possible objection to this proposal remains–that happiness is not negatively valued. However, this objection is dismissed as scientifically irrelevant.”