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Society should optimize for happiness. It's not measurable, but you can estimate it (for example you can estimate that average German is happier than average ci
by RivieraKid 14y ago
Society should optimize for happiness. It's not measurable, but you can estimate it (for example you can estimate that average German is happier than average citizen of North Korea). My vague definition happiness is this: Let's say you must choose between 2 states of mind and you'll spend the next hour in the selected one. Before your choice, you can try each of them by clicking some button. The one that you choose has higher "happiness quotient".
- javert 14y agoSo let's draft 1% of the population and place them in a large underground bunker at birth. They will never be allowed to know anything about the "real world," and they will provide all the labor, engineering, and scientific research for the other 99%, who get to everything for free. Does that sound like a good society to you?
- RivieraKid 14y agoNo, because this very probably wouldn't increase average happiness: 1. The 1% would be less happy. 2. Lot of the 99% would feel guilty (which lowers happiness). 3. The 1% would probably be less productive than if they were free. So the only benefit for the 99% would be that they consume less. By the way, this system to a certain extent exist in our society (cheap labour in China for example).