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have we figured out the yardsticks, measures or benchmarks of equality before we worry about inequalities. Is it the money or food or land that needs to be equally distributed or available to each of us?

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It is the quality of life. The trouble is that we always want to measure and quantify everything. How do you quantify happiness?

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And how do we measure inequalities? Indices for quality are measurable...

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They are not. Not everything can be measured. How tasty is the food which you ate? You can TRY to measure but you cannot measure it.

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That's my whole point. How do you measure inequalities? You defined it as quality of life. How do we measure it? Therefore, wouldn't the issue of inequalities remain vague for interpretation. What the commoner considers inequality might be entirely different from the eyes of a king. Some yardstick for quality must get defined. Per capita income or X sft of dwelling unit or Y amount of liquid cash and z amount of assets. I donno. Am just thinking loudly.

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Quality of life can be measured by how fulfilled someone feels. Let me detail this in another blog next week.

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Look forward to it. How does that feeling be quantified? And without quantification, the interpretations vary from person to person.

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