I agree. QALY also relate to happiness, whereas DALY’s relate to functioning.
If you are a billionaire, you have a selfish incentive to reduce DALY’s to raise productivity.
QALY’s are altruistic in the truest sense. I feel that should be pivotal in EA, not DALY’s.
Just because someone can function perfectly (no ‘disability’) doesn’t mean there no super depressed and miserable. They, even if they are a millionaire banker, could be a lot worse off than a highly ‘disabled’ quadraplegic from the Ivory Coast.
Doesn’t severe depression have a DALY weight? Of course one could also be miserable for all sorts of reasons without actually being depressed in a medical sense, and DALYs wouldn’t account for this. But that’s just one of the many ways in which DALYs optimize for practicality, compared to QALYs.
I agree. QALY also relate to happiness, whereas DALY’s relate to functioning.
If you are a billionaire, you have a selfish incentive to reduce DALY’s to raise productivity.
QALY’s are altruistic in the truest sense. I feel that should be pivotal in EA, not DALY’s.
Just because someone can function perfectly (no ‘disability’) doesn’t mean there no super depressed and miserable. They, even if they are a millionaire banker, could be a lot worse off than a highly ‘disabled’ quadraplegic from the Ivory Coast.
Doesn’t severe depression have a DALY weight? Of course one could also be miserable for all sorts of reasons without actually being depressed in a medical sense, and DALYs wouldn’t account for this. But that’s just one of the many ways in which DALYs optimize for practicality, compared to QALYs.