The Importance of Reducing Misery

According to Daniel Kahneman, reducing misery should be the focus of society rather than increasing happiness or character. He suggests that society should direct its efforts towards mental health issues and reducing suffering, as this would lead to different policy directions. Kahneman believes that happiness and misery are not substitutes and that the objective of policy should be to increase human well-being in a general sense, with a focus on reducing misery.