Happiness is …

not necessarily related to the number of tech toys a person has. According to the Happy Planet Index, by the London-based New Economics Foundation, the happiest people on the planet are from Vanuatu. Surprisingly, their GDP (Gross Domestic Product) rating puts them #207 (out of 233) - which suggests that happiness is not linked to consumption. And the ratings from the other end of the happiness scale seem to support this - as this is where the tech heavy countries were: Germany #81; Japan #95 and the US #150. Australia was not mentioned. (Of course, this is not to say that the judicious purchasing of individual tech toys doesn’t make people happy!)