If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive.
Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
We cannot, any of us, do all the things of which mankind stand in need; we must have fellow-labourers.
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
We must be doing something to be happy.
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.
We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
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