| | The [Joy - Sadness] index depicted in this news link indicates if folks are happy or not at various times. The indication is that folks were happiest during the free enterprise of the Roaring 20's, least happy after FDR strangled the economy with New Deal regulations which were designed to make us happier, and only rebounded in happiness after the advent of Reaganomics. An upshot is that freedom was an ingredient for human happiness (and that regulations designed to make us happier were counter-productive). A further investigation would include whether this had to be so (i.e., whether it will always be the case that freedom helps us and that regulations -- even those "engineered" to make us happy -- hurt us).
At least that's one interpretation which integrates seamlessly with the facts on the ground.
:-)
Ed
(Edited by Ed Thompson on 4/01, 5:43pm)
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