Comments on: Stiglitz, Sarkozy push for new measures of country performance

By: Caitlin Kelly

Caitlin Kelly — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:10:42 +0000

I think it’s a brilliant idea. It’s such a radical shift in thinking to value something as ephemeral as “leisure” instead of working hard to buy tons of stuff we don’t need and jam into storage lockers — gulping meals in cars or at our desks in the rush to “be efficient.” I doubt anyone on their deathbed, or in their eulogy, gives a crap about how “productive” they were relative to more personal, intimate and less commercially useful values.

It’s madness.

By: iskid2astop

iskid2astop — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:31:34 +0000

I wonder if this has something to do with the idea of short people being happier?

By: sothonod

sothonod — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:10:19 +0000

This is by far the best political idea ever!
I think that everyone should support that idea, left or right. My experiences as a French man leaving in the US lead me to say “When a Republican proposes something that contains social advantages, TAKE IT!”

But I wont hold my breath on that one…