Unfortunately, I'm not a WASP so your 'horse theory' doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
You forgot the part where I then accuse you of being the one blinded by ideology and bias.
In relative terms, sure. But in absolute terms it's a tiny fraction of people: 10 per 100k.
I always have trouble with this assertion. How do we actually know this? Do we feel that the surveys that are being given can even accurately measure happiness, and that the responses are comparable over time? It feels these questions are difficult to definitively answer, but I see all the time the tendency to reach for references to the World Happiness Report as if it should be taken automatically as an accurate measurement.
As far as I know, we don't even have measurements going back that far -- the earliest I've generally been able to find is from the mid/late 1900s. I think it's a bold statement to say people are the happiest ever right now.