World Happiness index

I think the World Happiness Report is a poor first step. It's produced annually and it isn't connected to any thing in particular, such as a particular event or change in society.

Nobody can make heads or tails what caused happiness or unhappiness. There's no cause connected to effect.

Local governments and governments spend billions on social care and improvements designed to relieve suffering. But they do not check afterwards how effective the spending was. If they do, it's some lousy report that nobody reads or actions.

I propose every citizen have a happiness account. In this account, you can report your happiness about some thing that has happened.

Every interaction between companies and government has an identifier. You can use this identifier when you fill out a happiness impression. This is a simple record of your happiness score caused by an interaction. You can also provide a reason.

You can give the interaction a score.

This score is aggregated in thousands and thousands of ways: by local council, by city, by shop that you shop in, by country, by company you do business with and so on. These form happiness indexes. They have names like the FTSE-100

You can also review URLs and give them happiness scores.

There's also a global aggregated score which is total happiness.

Now, with this information available, companies, governments can make decisions that truly maximise happiness in the world.

"Government announces tax cut. Happiness jumps 10% year- on- year"

"Happiness returning to mean. Someone better do something"

"This movie has increased happiness the most this year"

"Charitable giving of XYZ charity increased happiness by 30% this year. This charity has the best return on happiness investment."