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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • Sure, although those are still different things, and people won’t receive a diagnosis just because they’re more sensitive to matters of justice.

    I completely agree with you that the stigma around psychological disorders (“disorder bad”) isn’t justified. Especially people with conditions like autism or ADHD often just experience the world differently and in ways that would sometimes be beneficial if everyone saw it that way.

    The term “disorder” does a poor job at conveying that these conditions often result from peoples’ inability to function in “normal” society, which is not caused by them being “bad” but rather by society making it difficult for them to function as well as they could.



  • I’m a lay person, too, so I can’t help much with detailed references. My understanding is that PPP is intended for cross-country comparisons (i.e., purchasing power in one region/country compared with that in another). Purchasing power indices more generally measure the (real) value of someone’s wages (after deducting regular expenses like rent, insurance etc.) for purchasing certain goods (e.g., a standardized “basket of goods”).

    To find information for your country, you could check your national statistics agencies to see if they provide data on such indices. Real wages are one example that you can probably find, although they don’t adjust for cost of living expenses (but they typically do adjust for inflation).