Sublime

So now people were using older instruments like the Inclusive Prosperity Index, the Genuine Progress Indicator, the UN’s Human Development Index Inequality Adjusted, and the Global Footprint Index.

The goal of higher income is not just bigger piles of money. The goal of longer lives is not just extra time. The ultimate goal is to have the freedom to do what we want.

Factfulness is … recognizing when we get negative news, and remembering that information about bad events is much more likely to reach us. When things are getting better we often don’t hear about them. This gives us a systematically too-negative impression of the world around us, which is very stressful.

Factfulness is … recognizing when a lonely number seems impressive (small or large), and remembering that you could get the opposite impression if it were compared with or divided by some other relevant number. To control the size instinct, get things in proportion.

The gap instinct makes us imagine division where there is just a smooth range, difference where there is convergence, and conflict where there is agreement.

Elinor Ostrom,

Un autre monde est né. Et ce changement ne concerne pas seulement la taille des familles ou le taux de survie infantile. Dans presque tous les aspects de la vie humaine, on observe la même mutation. Je pourrais utiliser des graphiques montrant les niveaux de revenu, le tourisme, la démocratie, l’accès à l’éducation, la santé, l’électricité – tous r

15. Wealth Gaps.

I call this preference for single causes and single solutions the single perspective instinct.