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> better on the Human Freedom Index Weird that all the metrics keep telling everyone their life is better, but people don’t feel that way. You can’t summarize
by grandempire 2y ago
> better on the Human Freedom Index
Weird that all the metrics keep telling everyone their life is better, but people don’t feel that way. You can’t summarize the human experience of freedom in an index.
- krapp 2y agoI know, people felt like eggs were too expensive and brown people were getting too much of a free ride so they voted to burn the country down. One might almost infer in this post-truth age of ours that vibes alone aren't sufficient to form an objective model of reality.
- grandempire 2y agoDid you know these indices are invented by vibes of other people and are at best objective measurements of subjective values?
- krapp 2y agoYou're confusing "vibes" with "data." If you disagree with the data, present data to the contrary. If you're just insisting that we believe your vibes over others, that would just make for boring conversation.
- grandempire 2y agoYou’re confusing data with meaning, understanding, and truth. How many freedom units in the index am I experiencing right now? Will getting more units make me happier? You can measure data without that data having a meaningful bearing on the topic you care about.
- bloomingkales 2y agoI know, people felt like eggs were too expensive and brown people were getting too much of a free ride so they voted to burn the country down. The grand summary of America 2025. I don't think anyone has said it better than that in all of media. They gymnastics people run to avoid that simple truth just reveals their rotten core.
- Izkata 2y ago"Egg prices" is part of the left's dismissal over the right's concerns about the economy in general. Using it as the basis of a serious argument hints you have no idea what the right is thinking.
- makeitdouble 2y agoHow people feel is inherently complex and hard to measure, but we should mind there is a self-selection aspect where people moving to/staying in the US probably tend to care less about some of the racial history or democratic process. What matters as "freedom" will wildly vary from a US domestic point of view vs an international or EU point of view. "People don't feel that way" is I think on point, regardless of the state of the country. In particular as those really uncomfortable with the situation give up and move away.
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