substitution effect of what for what?
What do you think are the best sources of evidence as to whether things are getting better or worse for people at various time scales?
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has the advantage of being extremely measurable, an important baseline
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it’s hard to know how much things like the internet contribute to welfare - massive consumer surplus not recorded in prices?
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measuring palliation as a proxy for suffering
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(palliation attempts at least)
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disintegration of traditional social structures traditional social structures are brutal adaptations to brutal conditions and their decay is a reliable index to improved conditions
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yeah it’s a whole stack of turtles before you even get to measurement of anything
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i think a lot of the human progress data discussed by
@OurWorldInData,@MaxCRoser,@sapinker, etc is heartening and significant. doesn't capture the full story (e.g. widespread sense of purposelessness/despair in affluent societies is under-discussed) but worth looking at - 3 more replies
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