One thing I like about the &quot;World Happiness Report&quot; type of thinking is it gives a potential better way to run countries where an engineering approach is used to optimise human well being (or something like that. &#x27;How is life out of 10?&#x27; is a reasonable proxy perhaps) as opposed to the traditional set up of a right wing party and left wing party shouting &#x27;they suck, vote for us&#x27; which probably leads to suboptimal outcomes.