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The Conservative Argument for Happiness
I think we all agree that people in the poorer world, which is still billions of people, should have higher incomes. But even if you look at the richer world, for example, and Jarrod will have more precise figures than me on this - income per hour among a lot of Americans has been stagnant for perhaps 20, 40 years. If you switch over to Europe, you have many countries like Italy, Spain, France, where you have very high levels of unemployment,. You have problems in Britain too. So lots of people, even in the developed world, let alone in the poorer countries, really struggling to get by. And I think really what's being said in relation to happiness,
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