[hsbauauvhabzb]

Or a measure of quality of life. But it sounds like you’re only interested in pro-American talking points.

[WalterBright]

It's nearly impossible to measure quality of life, because everybody has a different idea of what that means.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

You mean like the human development index and various other measurement techniques?

[WalterBright]

Which is more important to your quality of life - central heating, or indoor plumbing?

[hsbauauvhabzb]

Germany has all three. I’m not sure what your point is.

[WalterBright]

I asked which was more important - i.e. what's your weighting of these?

[lucketone]

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) Definitely 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.

[spixy]

GDP PPP per capita is better measure of quality of life.

[mschuster91]

it's not. An economy where only a select few benefit from the GDP (e.g. via stocks - the richest 10% of Americans own 93% of the stocks!) is not a "quality of life" measure at all.

[1] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market...

[WalterBright]

You can select yourself as a beneficiary by buying stocks. With Robinhood, you can do so with less than a C-note.

> the richest 10% of Americans own 93% of the stocks

Most prolly got that way by buying stocks!