would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a small business owner in China

1 stranger working as small business owner in China have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 6.0 / 10, average stress 6.0 / 10. 46% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 37% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
6.0/ 10
happiness
6.0/ 10
stress
5.7h/ night
sleep
13h/ week
free time
$4,555/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade46%
would not trade37%
unsure17%

125 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • inspiring8
  • meaningful6
  • peaceful6
  • enviable5
  • stable5
  • stressful5

one small business owner in China has shared an anonymous fragment of their life. the sample is small — read the numbers below as suggestive, not definitive.

asked whether they would trade lives with small business owners in China, 125 strangers have answered. the result is split almost evenly: 46% would trade, 37% would not, 17% are unsure.

compared with small business owners worldwide, small business owners in China are less happy by 0.7 points on the 1–10 scale and less stressed by 1.3 points.

compared with everyone else in China, small business owners in China are happier by 1.0 points on the 1–10 scale and more envied by 7 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all small business owners globally
    happiness -0.7stress -1.3would-trade 0.0pp
  • vs all lives in China
    happiness +1.0stress 0.0would-trade +7.0pp

fragments