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How would you quantify joy?

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I don't think you can? I think if you try to, it will probably take away from it. Also, you will probably end up translating it to a monetary amount, but that goes back to my last sentence.

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Yes, that's my intuition too - but then asking how *much* joy am I giving up becomes unanswerable if we can't quantify it? Perhaps only in a forced ranking sense?

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Maybe if we can't quantify it, then we should stop trying to calculate the tradeoffs.

A binary of "Is it joyful or not?"

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