> But maybe that's not what the phrase actually means: maybe what they really intend to say is we've yet to identify unbiased metrics by which we can use to mea

> But maybe that's not what the phrase actually means: maybe what they really intend to say is we've yet to identify unbiased metrics by which we can use to measure cultures and thus correlate them. > If that's what's actually meant by the phrase 'all cultures are equal' (and I've never heard of anyone presenting it that way) then it should be stated as such because then we can work toward identifying those metrics so we can objectively improve our own culture. I agree with you about "all cultures are equal" being a hard statement to defend if you take it to literally and nihilistically to mean that there is no objective way to measure good or bad. Not a lot of people are that nihilistic. Most people believe in some degree of moral relativity and some degree of moral absolutism. It's hard. I don't have a rigorous proof for my feelings towards this, but I feel like the goal shouldn't be to reduce CULTURE down to KPIs. I don't think we should be putting culture on a scale and asking how it effects the economy because I think it's the kind of bad social science that people on HN usually detest. This is a good letter from one of Wax's critics, posted to Heterodox Academy: https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/09/03/i-dont-care-if-amy-wax-is-politically-incorrect-i-do-care-that-shes-empirically-incorrect/ https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/09/03/i-dont-care-if-amy-w...