Comments by "roidroid" (@roidroid) on "Майкл Грин: Что может рассказать о вашей стране индекс социального прогресса" video.

  1. Diogenes >this policy is that it doesn't take into consideration the tendency of people to slack off if a social safety net is there to catch them.Yes it does, GDP is part of the index.These indexes typically allow you to separate out the individual sub-indexes and plot them separately, so if GDP holds greater personal importance to you then just add it to your plot.This isn't a policy or bill, i recall no discussion of law, it's an index.
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  2. VidSmoFit so you're the problem then?
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  3. roidroid strange, youtube is removing a lot of my text formatting.
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  4. He says this "Social Development Index" is a new thing, but that's a bold-faced lie.  We've already had something like this since 1990, it's called the Human Development Index (HDI) and the UN has been publishing the figures for years.  It has it's own wikipedia page ffs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index  This guy never mentions it, and indeed goes on to imply that no such thing exists.  What's he playing at?
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  5. *****   The HDI is more complex than just 3 numbers plugged into a formula, what you call "Income" for example is standardized for PPP among other things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#Dimensions_and_calculation I can understand if his Social Progress Index is better than HDI, but that's not what his talk was about - it was instead (quite erroneously) about how the Social Progress Index is a world first and is going to change the GDP dominated world.  But no, by including health, education and PPP the HDI has already done that - YEARS AGO! In the whole talk he never mentioned HDI, he's knowingly lying to the audience for his own benefit.  It's like Apple trying to re-write history to say that the iPod was the world's first portable mp3 player (nope).
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