The United States, which was placed 11th in the world in the report, "has had a three time increase of GNP per capita since 1960, but the happiness needle hasn't budged," Sachs said at the UN meeting. "Other countries have pursued other policies and achieved much greater gains of happiness, even at much lower levels of per capita income."
Sjedinjene Države, koje su u izveštaju 11. u svetu, „imale su trostruko povećanje BNP po glavi stanovnika od 1960, ali se strelica sreće nije pomerala“, rekao je Saks na sastanku UN. „Druge zemlje sledile su drugačiju politiku i mnogo više napredovale na polju sreće, čak i sa puno manjim nivoom prihoda po glavi stanovnika“.