Are there ways of effectively truncating one's well-being function (establishing a clear welfare floor) that are not suicide?
Since being able to truncate one's well-being function appears to be such a clear win, does it do some kind of hidden (2nd order?) damage?
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Basically if everyone had a strictly positive utility function truncated at 0, are there reasons to think everyone wouldn't be better off?
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This is the classic Becker/Posner paper that outlines the theory http://storage.globalcitizen.net/data/topic/knowledge/uploads/2009051911410705.pdf …
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