AlonsoQ

Go in person + be a dick = best seats. Got it.

Well, good news first: you've just invented the Human Development Index. It's not perfect - eg. the education component rewards years of formal schooling with no upper bound, so a tinpot dictator ruling over a nation with a life expectancy of 50 and a per capita income of $10k can still crack the top 10 by forcing everyone to gets Master's degrees. But there are dozens more indexes with different areas of focus to choose from.

The bad news is, as soon it becomes a thing of real political importance, it becomes a target for political manipulation. You can make the math as pure and simple as you like, but you're still relying on humans to collect and process the data. Scale, meet thumb. See: unemployment rate, casualties of war, COVID deaths, city crime rates, budget estimates, etc. etc.

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