Ministry of Gemeinschaft would lead the ongoing production of high quality, detailed censuses of people’s lives over months, years and entire lifespans: how much loneliness, how much issues of trust among our friends, how often we feel the need to lie to one another and in what spheres of life (personally, professionally), what deeper insecurities drive us, how functional and satisfying our relationships are, how much we identify with ethnic or political groupings—and so forth. Today’s governments do monitor public health and some social indicators. But what we are considering here would be a
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