tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003998945645458544.post9198644558147463971..comments2024-03-28T20:26:08.799-07:00Comments on Aangirfan: ZENAnonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16577270335071593954noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003998945645458544.post-84294968738584227652019-04-11T12:38:58.731-07:002019-04-11T12:38:58.731-07:00A remarkable zen-like focus on happiness as a poli...A remarkable zen-like focus on happiness as a policy goal, is in the rhetoric of 44-year-old USA Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang<br /><br />The Taiwanese-heritage Yang, tho nominally Protestant Christian, speaks like a spiritual Asian<br /><br />On the 'hot controversial' issues, Yang does not pander ... he speaks directly, saying, let's fix the core issues of what is important for human needs ... and the other problems will be well on their way to being solved<br /><br />Yang talks about depressed working class people taking drugs and dying too young ... he wants to help all of them<br /><br />On <a href="https://www.yang2020.com/policies/measuring-the-economy/" rel="nofollow">Andrew Yang's campaign website</a> he says:<br /><br />« Our economic system needs to be updated for a new era. GDP and profitability are increasingly unrelated to how most of us are doing in real life. We need to implement a new set of measures like mental health, happiness, childhood success and quality-adjusted life expectancy that actually indicate our progress as a society and then channel resources to improving them. We don’t exist to serve the market. The market exists to serve us. »<br /><br />Yang says these below, are the factors we should be measuring and trying to improve, not 'GDP' etc ... The list below is also in a nice <a href="https://i.ibb.co/vBp7Y0V/Andrew-Yang-meme-Gross-Domestic-Well-Being.jpg" rel="nofollow">Andrew Yang image meme, his goal of GDW - 'Gross Domestic Well-Being'</a>:<br /><br />Quality of life and health-adjusted life expectancy<br />Happiness / well-being and mental health<br />Underemployment<br />Income inequality<br />Consumer and student debt<br />Work and civic engagement levels<br />Volunteerism<br />Infant mortality<br />Quality of infrastructure<br />Access to education<br />Marriage and divorce rates<br />Substance abuse and related deaths<br />National optimism<br />Personal dynamism / economic mobility<br /><br />Yang argues that in fact we are really rich together, but we need to face how automation is destroying the old employment framework ... and that it is not unrealistic for everyone to have life security and a minimum income ... the trillions are clearly there<br /><br />Significantly, the two 'radical' non-establishment candidates in the USA - Andrew Yang and the peace-promoting, anti-war, part-Samoan woman, Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii - have both cleared the hurdle to make it into the party presidential debates<br /><br />They both needed 65,000 separate donations from separate US citizens to do this, even if only one dollar ... Yang hit the mark earlier, Tulsi hit it yesterdayBrabantiannoreply@blogger.com