My claim would be that if the poorest country in the world could be brought up to the standard of living of the US and the rest of the world could have its standard of living increased so as to maintain the same relative inequality, then (to a first approximation) every individual in the world would find their happiness either increased or unchanged. I don’t know if anyone would go so far as to claim otherwise but it sometimes seems that some people would dispute that claim.
My claim would be that if the poorest country in the world could be brought up to the standard of living of the US and the rest of the world could have its standard of living increased so as to maintain the same relative inequality, then (to a first approximation) every individual in the world would find their happiness either increased or unchanged. I don’t know if anyone would go so far as to claim otherwise but it sometimes seems that some people would dispute that claim.
Agreed.