would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a small business owner in Vietnam

1 stranger working as small business owner in Vietnam have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 5.0 / 10, average stress 8.0 / 10. 33% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 55% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
5.0/ 10
happiness
8.0/ 10
stress
5.5h/ night
sleep
16h/ week
free time
$1,012/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade33%
would not trade55%
unsure12%

82 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • depressing5
  • stable5
  • lonely4
  • exhausting3
  • inspiring3
  • chaotic2

one small business owner in Vietnam 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 Vietnam, 82 strangers have answered. the result is narrowly no — slightly more strangers would keep their own: 33% would trade, 55% would not, 12% are unsure.

compared with small business owners worldwide, small business owners in Vietnam are less happy by 1.7 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 0.7 points, and less envied by 13 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in Vietnam, small business owners in Vietnam are more stressed by 1.3 points.

how this compares

  • vs all small business owners globally
    happiness -1.7stress +0.7would-trade -13.0pp
  • vs all lives in Vietnam
    happiness -0.3stress +1.3would-trade -2.0pp

fragments