would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a small business owner in Mexico

1 stranger working as small business owner in Mexico have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 6.0 / 10, average stress 7.0 / 10. 56% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 23% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
6.0/ 10
happiness
7.0/ 10
stress
6h/ night
sleep
10h/ week
free time
$2,211/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade56%
would not trade23%
unsure21%

43 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • inspiring3
  • enviable2
  • meaningful2
  • peaceful2
  • stable2
  • depressing1

one small business owner in Mexico 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 Mexico, 43 strangers have answered. the result is narrowly yes — slightly more strangers would trade in than not: 56% would trade, 23% would not, 21% are unsure.

compared with small business owners worldwide, small business owners in Mexico are less happy by 0.7 points on the 1–10 scale and more envied by 10 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in Mexico, small business owners in Mexico are less happy by 0.4 points on the 1–10 scale and more stressed by 0.7 points.

how this compares

  • vs all small business owners globally
    happiness -0.7stress -0.3would-trade +10.0pp
  • vs all lives in Mexico
    happiness -0.4stress +0.7would-trade 0.0pp

fragments