It’s a pleasure to share the 0th draft of my PhD thesis. The overly ambitious topic- how should we judge the effects of policy on welfare? Feedback is greatly appreciated- just click here to read it.
2. Would it be possible that factors of wellbeing deviates from different phenotypical or archetypical groups? Maybe the middle class's needs are different from the working class, and have different social effects? (think Ribbonfarm, Dancoland, American Manifesto, Moldbug, Michael O Church etc.) Or perhaps welfare effects are culture specific? (Schwartz, Hofstede, Lewis Model etc.)
3. Can there be alternate multi-dimensional models of wellbeing similar to what has happened to emotions as Valence vs Arousal vs Dominance?
Some dumb ideas:
1. The happiness-suicide paradox: Suicide rates decreases with human development (which includes development of free market inequality and social peace), but increases with "felt happiness" in World Happiness Report, meaning there are still ways of de-correlating perceptions and welfare effects (see https://doc-research.org/de/2018/06/paradoxes-of-happiness/ and https://doc-research.org/2019/05/billionaires-millionaires-inequality-and-happiness/)
2. Would it be possible that factors of wellbeing deviates from different phenotypical or archetypical groups? Maybe the middle class's needs are different from the working class, and have different social effects? (think Ribbonfarm, Dancoland, American Manifesto, Moldbug, Michael O Church etc.) Or perhaps welfare effects are culture specific? (Schwartz, Hofstede, Lewis Model etc.)
3. Can there be alternate multi-dimensional models of wellbeing similar to what has happened to emotions as Valence vs Arousal vs Dominance?