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Or a measure of quality of life. But it sounds like you’re only interested in pro-American talking points.
by hsbauauvhabzb 10mo ago
Or a measure of quality of life. But it sounds like you’re only interested in pro-American talking points.
- WalterBright 10mo agoIt's nearly impossible to measure quality of life, because everybody has a different idea of what that means.
- hsbauauvhabzb 10mo agoYou mean like the human development index and various other measurement techniques?
- WalterBright 10mo agoWhich is more important to your quality of life - central heating, or indoor plumbing?
- hsbauauvhabzb 10mo agoGermany has all three. I’m not sure what your point is.
- WalterBright 10mo agoI asked which was more important - i.e. what's your weighting of these?
- hsbauauvhabzb 10mo ago[flagged]
- lucketone 10mo agoIt is irrelevant, if both are available as base package. I guess you want to point out that choices are subjective. That subjectivity is relevant within their classes (air—food-water, security-health-plumbing-heating, smartphone-car-vacation, yaht-designerBrands) Definitely there will be one person who choses to die, just to get latest smartphone, but most people will not. These classes get less clear/useful as you go up, but most people will agree on the basics. Tangent: it is important for me personally for my neighbour to have the basics (and more), as that increases my basics like security, sanitary conditions.
- WalterBright 10mo agoGDP is an objective metric, while quality of life is subjective and is inevitably based on arbitrary weightings by the people trying to calculate it.
- spixy 10mo agoGDP PPP per capita is better measure of quality of life.
- mschuster91 10mo agoit's not. An economy where only a select few benefit from the GDP (e.g. via stocks - the richest 10% of Americans own 93% of the stocks!) is not a "quality of life" measure at all. [1] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-ownership-wealthiest-americans-one-percent-record-high-economy-2024-1 https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market...
- WalterBright 10mo agoYou can select yourself as a beneficiary by buying stocks. With Robinhood, you can do so with less than a C-note. > the richest 10% of Americans own 93% of the stocks Most prolly got that way by buying stocks!