Scott Alexander's Astral Codex Ten blog post engages with Cassie Pritchard's argument that liberalism is failing because despite unprecedented wealth and progress, people are not happier. Alexander counters that happiness scales logarithmically with income, not linearly, meaning that while wealth has increased dramatically, the corresponding increase in happiness is more modest. He uses data from Our World in Data and the Maddison Project to illustrate that a 225-fold increase in income since the medieval era would only predict a small rise in happiness on a 1-10 scale, suggesting that other factors beyond economic prosperity influence overall contentment. AI
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