Second, wellbeing – unlike GDP – is boosted more by increases in income among the poorer segments of the population than by increases among the wealthy. That is why the richer European economies tend to have large automatic stabilizers built into their public finances.
其次，幸福感和GDP不一样，它更多由贫困而非富裕阶层的收入增长来推动。这也解释了富裕的欧洲经济体为什么在公共财政领域往往自然而然就更加稳定。但欧洲区国家缺乏再分配机制显然加剧了最近这次危机所造成的紧张。