[HLUG] business coding challenge: Gross National Happiness

[Matt Rhys-Roberts]

‘Economic calculations ignore the value of fresh water and green forests’

Further to 
http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=3257, how about 
those of us involved in corporate/financial IT putting this idea into 
practice? Almost without exception, spreadsheets and accounting systems 
are optimised to maximise profits, generally at the expense of the 
well-being and sustainability of people and planet.

Gross National Happiness is basically another column in a spreadsheet 
that measures how happy people may be under certain circumstances. If 
this were treated as seriously as shareholder returns, I wonder how 
different the world could be?

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Best Regards,
Matt Rhys-Roberts