I/O: Love ya, but income is not a measure of cost to behavioral, normative, inst

I/O: Love ya, but income is not a measure of cost to behavioral, normative, institutional, and genetic capital. Yet it is behavioral, normative, institutional and genetic capital collapse that causes the “bowling alone” effect – collapse of social capital. What we are living through today.

Worse, the capacity of western civ to produce high trust commons and produce material commons, only possible by high trust polities, means europeans can both make more money and live comfortably on less money than other groups.

So while I generally agree with you, the reality is that you’re engaging in selective accounting and justification instead of measurement by full accounting of costs.

Which is of course the accidental sophistry that has created the nonsense pseudoscience of the twentieth century that the present world conditions are exposing rather rapidly.

Curt Doolittle
NLI