{"id":46484880,"user":"WalterBright","time":1767500582,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

It's nearly impossible to measure quality of life, because everybody has a different idea of what that means.","comments":[{"id":46485279,"user":"hsbauauvhabzb","time":1767505193,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

You mean like the human development index and various other measurement techniques?","comments":[{"id":46485553,"user":"WalterBright","time":1767508549,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

Which is more important to your quality of life - central heating, or indoor plumbing?","comments":[{"id":46485636,"user":"hsbauauvhabzb","time":1767509737,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

Germany has all three. I’m not sure what your point is.","comments":[{"id":46486031,"user":"WalterBright","time":1767514674,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

I asked which was more important - i.e. what's your weighting of these?","comments":[{"id":46486962,"user":"lucketone","time":1767525501,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

It is irrelevant, if both are available as base package.

I guess you want to point out that choices are subjective.

That subjectivity is relevant within their classes (air—food-water, security-health-plumbing-heating, smartphone-car-vacation, yaht-designerBrands)\nDefinitely there will be one person who choses to die, just to get latest smartphone, but most people will not.

These classes get less clear/useful as you go up, but most people will agree on the basics.

Tangent: it is important for me personally for my neighbour to have the basics (and more), as that increases my basics like security, sanitary conditions.","comments":[{"id":46490409,"user":"WalterBright","time":1767549462,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

GDP is an objective metric, while quality of life is subjective and is inevitably based on arbitrary weightings by the people trying to calculate it.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":5,"url":"item?id=46490409"}],"comments_count":1,"level":4,"url":"item?id=46486962"},{"id":46486341,"user":"hsbauauvhabzb","time":1767518014,"time_ago":"a month ago","type":"comment","content":"

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