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This is dumb. We measure productivity because that’s what the people with the power to choose the important metrics care about. There’s no “we” that gets to cho
by 3qz 4y ago
This is dumb. We measure productivity because that’s what the people with the power to choose the important metrics care about. There’s no “we” that gets to choose anything! They don’t care about your wellbeing and would happily make you eat bugs if it meant their favourite numbers would go in the right direction.
- archon1410 4y agoHey, bug eating can be fun from a well-being perspective too. Some utilitarians will make you eat bugs of it meant their favourite numbers (yes, your well-being is a number) would go in the right direction. But it probably isn't, maybe a vegan diet is what the utilitarians recommend.
- 3qz 4y agoI will not eat the bugs
- seabriez 4y agoI disagree here. I think this change is necessary for society to evolve. Society is not a static thing and just because things have been done a certain way, doesn't mean it is right. My suspicion is we are doing many things wrong, electricity hasn't even been invented for much more than 100 years, yet we organize ourselves in a similar way as we have been for millennia. If we do need to change, then what? Well-being may be a great measure, in fact I think it may be the only measure. There are many concerns like gaming, lying, or corruption. But I think with the challenges can be minimized; why? Well induction, if we had this current economic system with all it's faults work, then why can't well-being be another metric? Moreover, I think this is exactly the step we need to make because part of the reason this earth is dying is because humans have prioritized materialistic exploitation. We need to move on from those notions, and if well-being is the new metric, then that sounds great to me.
- jacobolus 4y agoExcept for arbitrary cultural conditioning, there’s really nothing wrong with eating bugs. People who live in the forest eat bugs all the time. At industrial scale I could well believe that bugs would be a better food source than some of our current staples, and if bugs were cheaply available and other foods had all of their external costs priced in, I could imagine substantial numbers of city dwellers choosing to eat bugs. (Which is not to say that anyone should be forced to eat any particular food.)