Car marketers (a.k.a. corporate capitalists) peddle their monumentally wasteful and dangerous products as indispensable bundles of joy and comfort.
Curious then, how the three happiest countries in the world rank in the motor vehicles per capita department:
Denmark: #1 in happiness, #28 in automobiles per person
Switzerland: #2 in happiness, #15 in automobiles per person
Austria: #3 in happiness, #10 in automobiles per person
And how does the USA, by far the world’s most car-intensive society rank in terms of human happiness?
We’re #23.