Korea is number 2 ?? 
Can this be right? Norway number 1 of course 
Yeah Ireland is No.5. Ireland would be 10x better than Korea seems like a rubbish survey. Korea is an extremely pressurised hothouse system, even worse than Taiwan I guess.
Sounds fantastic ! Flourishing !
(The teenager in the article is doing 15 hour days in order to becomeā¦a teacherā¦Sounds very rational doesnāt it )
BBC News - South Koreaās schools: Long days, high results
I love the way the Daily mail deliberately avoids stating Ireland as one of the countries ahead of the UK.
Also surely Koreaās carbon emissions are massive and it has an existential threat from North Korea.
Norway and Finland are Number One for pretty much everything except number of Betelnut trees per square meter and number of Flip-flop wearers year round.
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US 39? are you kidding me? There are many things wrong with the US but 39? Worse than Bosnia lol. Literally laughed out loud.
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The mail probably feel ashamed Ireland is higher. I was kind of surprised it was hardly mentioned.
In fact it almost never mentions Ireland.
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Read the real text: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32540-1/fulltext
US is 39 probably because children are obese, their nutrition is terrible, they live in a country with death penalty, almost no control on firearms, high criminality, drug and alcohol problems, high level of pollution, and they are subject to aggressive commercial and marketing practices, etcā¦ Not judging, but I think it can be justified quite easily. I donāt know about Bosnia, but you probably have no idea about Bosnia either, the war is over since 1995 and itās a beautiful country. 
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Itās simple: low standards are way easier to sustain.
Thereās that. I also suspect having more or less the highest infant mortality rate (depending on whether or not Turkey and several Latin American countries are counted) plus the highest maternal mortality rate in the First World has something to do with it too. 
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I always question these results cuz Korean kids have no lives. They wake up, go to school, sleep through school, leave school to go to another school and then go to a place to study for hours before going home to sleep for a few seconds and then getting up to do it all again.
Is that āflourishingā? I mean, I donāt disagree with the stuff said about American kids, but at least they can take up hobbies and have time to pick their noses.
Iāve always wondered how high academics can be directly correlated to everything else.
What is the point of life if you spend the first 18 years prepping for the next 45 years so you can maybe have ten years of old age to enjoy yourself?
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The future is automation. Socialism does t look like it will be a functional reality anytime soon. With that in mind, mindless drone people who are willing to work work work probably do have the best possible outcome in that world. Meanwhile all the lazy freethinkers will be starving and plotting the resistance in the sewers for the future war with the machines.
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