I don't see this. Why does it diminish my quality of living as a lover of
seminbars that there are opportunities as a listener to symphonies? And
while choosing may be hard, and and the hardness a disvalue, why is it an
improvement to say, No More Seminars? There, now you don't have to choose! I
agree taht there is no single dimension on which to measure standards of
living or even the overall goodness of life.
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>Jon Elster made this sort of point. It's fair enough, but it just shows
>that
>in rich society with a profusion of needs, we need to make choices. Is that
>so bad?
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>CB: The claim is not that it is so bad. It is that there are diminishing
>returns to the quality of living of individuals from your standard of ever
>increasing the number of needs in society as a whole. If I have to choose
>between needs, then the total amount of needs in society being great does
>not benefit me. And no, I don't think of the opportunity and the
>REQUIREMENT that I choose as a sign of my freedom.
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