A fantastic and ambitious new article by Frank Martela that attempts to formulate a comprehensive theory of well-being with "having, loving, doing and being" as modes of existence.
It draws from a very wide range of existing #research in #psychology, #philosophy, #sociology, #ecology and #economics among others.
This is crucial groundwork needed to break the dominance of #GDP and instead focus on "well-being for all humanity while remaining within planetary boundaries"
I heard yesterday a good faith argument that we can't fault corporations from using copyrighted material as training data for their #AI models, because that's roughly how people learn too.
I was left wondering that shouldn't it be obvious to everyone that a trillion dollar corporation downloading the entire internet to make a gadget they then sell for profit, can and should be treated morally and legally in a different way than a person reading a book?
Is there something I'm missing here?
The injustice of #UnequalExchange is staggering:
>We find that, in 2021, the economies of the global North net-appropriated 826 billion hours of embodied labour from the global South, across all skill levels and sectors. The wage value of this net-appropriated labour was equivalent to €16.9 trillion in Northern prices, accounting for skill level.
>While Southern workers contribute 90% of the labour that powers the world economy, they receive only 21% of global income.