Biggest impacts on my mental health - school - work I'm sure these apply to most people. And maybe family would come in 3rd place. Why do our institutions still seemingly not value human welfare? And how can we change this?
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Replying to @cosimia_
IMO, the biggest problem is that we are still not wealthy enough as a society because your average person does not satisfy enough of other people's preferences & provide enough economic value into the system.
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Hm. How do you define 'enough' - or how does the market decide I guess
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Replying to @cosimia_
And frankly, I think the market decides by wages. It's not a perfect system--it's certainly not hedonistic utilitarian & doesn't prioritize what actually matters. It's a preference-utilitarian system where higher wages approx. imply a better fulfillment of other's preferences
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Replying to @EvanWard97 @cosimia_
in a system w/ supply and demand and where scarce resources have alternative resources.
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Replying to @EvanWard97 @cosimia_
I think if everyone were interested in earning money, we'd have more of a utopia. The problem is that earning money is seen as needy and greedy rather than the honest matching of preferences via an exchange of labor/goods at a certain price.
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Replying to @EvanWard97
We're already too interested in earning money bro See: unsustainable resource depletion
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Replying to @cosimia_
The problem their is a lack of proper Pougovian taxes. If you tax ecological services at the cost of replacement and/or reparations, & actually use that money for replacing them or repairing the damage done, we won't have to artificially & sloppily intervene in the economy
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Replying to @EvanWard97 @cosimia_
I wrote a paper on pricing the Commons: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SiSrMUd0hqGCAhiKONO2WlJjT-cDY9Oy/view?usp=drivesdk …
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Will try to read when I find time :)
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