| ▲ | CaptWorld 10 hours ago | |
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09797-z https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/10/ar... | ||
| ▲ | nsingh2 9 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09797-z That title reeks of the paper equivalent of clickbait. The paper is about subjective well-being and mental health in the psychological sense. Broader well-being includes material conditions like income, housing, health care, safety, and social connections. So a null result on subjective well-being is not necessarily a null result on material welfare, and the problems that leads to. The paper’s own abstract also talks about context effects rather than a simple universal null. > https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/10/ar... Unions are not perfect, but they have been an important check on exploitation. Organized labor helped win the 40-hour workweek. If you demand perfect solutions, you end up doing nothing. And given that you're up against people with nearly unlimited resources, you can't afford to be picky. | ||