4 ms·
The correct measure is something like quality-adjusted life years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualit
by ThrustVectoring 11y ago
The correct measure is something like quality-adjusted life years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year), treating the particular details of the job as a disability.
- randyrand 11y agoFor many people working improves their quality of life. Making things, having some purpose, giving back to society, ect are all very rewarding things.
- ThrustVectoring 11y agoSorry if that was unclear - working a job you love can and should have the opposite sign. That's why I said something like QALY: it maxes out at 1 QALY/person-year, which is incorrect when people would rather spend a decade as a rock star than 30 years retired in Arizona.
- kybernetikos 11y agoThese sound good. I think there'd probably be more of all those things if people didn't have to work unfulfilling jobs of marginal benefit to society in order to feed themselves.