On: If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too

[johnrob]

But there are certainly ways a subset of the population could profit from increasing food prices too. The question is a moral one.

[dredmorbius → johnrob]

The ultimate question to me is how the common weal benefits. A question for which in part the problem is in not having a good measure. Certainly not GDP or mean income, though measures of net happiness or well-being exist.

But individual advantage is a false measure.

[johnrob → dredmorbius]

BTW - your link from above is great - thanks for posting.

[dredmorbius → johnrob]

Thanks. Consider that highly speculative, though somewhat plausible.