Item — HN Reader

> and general social well-being.

Your question was sane and sounded like it was genuine until that. That is an invisible goalpost that can be moved by the question-asker at will to negate any disliked answer, to allow one to create an illusion that no answer exists.

1 comments

You think it's insane to consider social well-being? You don't want politicians to consider it at all? That makes you an extreme outlier, not me.

Social well-being is quantifiable with things like:

- all-cause mortality and disability rates

- polls of government approval

- consumer optimism

- marriage rates (as distressed people are less likely to get married)

- affordability

I think it is insane to name that as a benchmark with no details. That phrase could mean anything and nothing and everything.

"Imprecise" != "insane" or "bad faith"