Every story and comment from the Hacker News API, in a layout borrowed from 2001.
A comment on If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power. Parent comment
(1) relative deprivation is a substantial source of disutility, and
(2) additional wealth/income has declining marginal utility.
It's quite easy for a situation where the rich/poor gap grows and everyone gets richer in absolute terms to actually have negative net utility.
There are no comments on this comment yet.
(1) relative deprivation is a substantial source of disutility, and
(2) additional wealth/income has declining marginal utility.
It's quite easy for a situation where the rich/poor gap grows and everyone gets richer in absolute terms to actually have negative net utility.