Happy Society

Our intention is to gather and describe mechanisms that allow the creation of a society that serves its citizens. If we look at the state as an autonomous entity that competes with other states, its natural goal then becomes to be as efficient as possible, thus having a stronger economy and military than its rivals. From this perspective, the well-being of citizens is not the state's natural goal. If we care about the state looking after its citizens, and not just its own efficiency, we must deliberately create mechanisms that enforce this. With a high degree of probability, these mechanisms will weaken the state's efficiency in terms of economic competitiveness and military strength, because these are completely different goals, and adding additional goals inevitably weakens them. However, as people, we should care about our own well-being, and the state should serve us, not the other way around. Combining these goals is extremely difficult. The most important mechanism attempting to achieve this seems to be democracy.

Designing more detailed mechanisms turns out to be more difficult than we initially assumed, due to the multitude of dependencies between distant fields of social sciences, hence at this point, this section is merely a collection of loosely connected articles on such mechanisms, and perhaps in the future, we will combine them into one cohesive article.