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If society had a scorecard, what would be on it?

1•baptou12•1h ago
Imagine you had to evaluate societies like systems.

What metrics would you include in a scorecard? (limit yourself to 3–5)

And which ones matter most?

Comments

haebom•1h ago
Watch “Nosedive,” the first episode of Season 3 of Netflix's Black Mirror.
baptou12•48m ago
so social rating as a key signal ?
anovikov•44m ago
1. Democracy. Measured as "Odds for winning candidate/party 6 months before voting date, averaged over last 4 electoral cycles", higher the better. Democracy = elections with unpredictable results. This metric creates some questionable cases (Iraq will be a democracy and Japan won't), but it's still good enough.

2. Per capita GDP growth rate, averaged over ~10 year economic cycle.

3. Per capita GDP itself. Log scale.

4. Protection of private property rights. Measured as ratio of private net worth to GDP (if rights are not protected, businesses aren't worth much even if they make a lot of money because people know they can be taken away and that's priced in).

baptou12•3m ago
Interesting, but this feels very economic.

It seems possible to optimize for these metrics and still end up with a society where I wouldn’t want to live if I were randomly placed in it (high stress, low trust, poor quality of life).

Would you add anything to capture that?

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