Very much agree with Jason: if subjective wellbeing doesn’t go up with improving physical quality of life, it isn’t a good measure of everything we should care about. (I think that’s probably true of ‘how happy are you’ questions, maybe a little less true about ‘how satisfied with life are you).
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Jason Crawford
The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 4: The Life Well-Lived (part 1)
Counterintuitively, happiness is not a good metric of human well-being. A better guide to human progress is whether people can achieve their goals and fulfill their values:
blog.rootsofprogress.org/thm-ch4-the-...
Counterintuitively, happiness is not a good metric of human well-being. A better guide to human progress is whether people can achieve their goals and fulfill their values:
blog.rootsofprogress.org/thm-ch4-the-...
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