• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      151·
      2 years ago

      Doesn’t really match my experience either to be honest. Pretty much everybody I know is generally unhappy about the state of things in Canada.

  • albigu
    15·
    2 years ago

    Brazil at 83% is only possible if the poll was conducted on a football match day on a Friday.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      111·
      2 years ago

      I imagine a big limitation of this is that it’s biased towards people who have internet access, and in countries like Brazil or India that excludes a large chunk of the population.

  • Aria
    9·
    2 years ago

    Wish they had surveyed the other AES countries too so I could use it to dunk on libs.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      31·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, completely agree with that. It’s interesting as a pulse of how people surveyed respond to a fairly general question, but it misses a lot of nuance that would be important to draw any deep conclusions from this. Also worth noting that there is an inherent sample bias in who chooses or even has the opportunity to respond.

  • Pili
    81·
    2 years ago

    How is the work culture in China nowadays? I’ve heard about the 996 before, did it change since then?

    • davelEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      AFAIK 996 is the attention-grabbing exception rather than the rule in China, so I doubt it reflects upon this poll very much.

      • Pili
        91·
        2 years ago

        Ok I see. That’s what I expected because I know I wouldn’t be happy with that kind of work life balance. 😅

        Hopefully the government can crack down on the companies practicing it still.

    • Aria
      5·
      2 years ago

      When I ask, the answer I hear is “No it’s not like that, I work a completely normal 100% of my time, it’s cool”.

  • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
    6·
    2 years ago

    I remember seeing a funny post of liberals coping with “communist nations are happier” by saying “well they’re happier because of all the propaganda” which even if it was true (it’s not) wouldn’t that still be a good thing?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      31·
      2 years ago

      It’s such a ridiculous premise too, like people are being tricked into being happy. If propaganda worked that way then everybody in the west would be positively ecstatic given that US has the biggest and most sophisticated propaganda machine in history.

      • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 years ago

        Part of it is intent, like they do have the biggest propaganda machine in history, but it’s tuned towards making people angry and miserable. The closest thing you have to ‘happiness’ propaganda are those ads that suggest therapy where if you go for them your boss will fire you.

  • ComradeSalad
    4·
    2 years ago

    There is absolutely no way Argentina has 74% happiness with the insane economic collapse, inflation, inability to get basic food products and goods, and other necessities.