inflation indexes took into account actual money.

This is a simple issue.  Inflation and indexes like RPI work as %.  The issue with % is that the absolute numbers are ignored in the reality of our day to day lives.  If you are a multi-millionaire and get a 0.2% rise in income that is an amount that means you can buy a new car every month instead of every other month.

If you are on minimum wage a 0.2% increase won't even amount to a postage stamp.

So growth rates and inflation may well be looked at by economists to make important decisions but the impacts on the poor are disproportional.  2% growth is great but 2% of nothing is still nothing.

Printers

Would the world be a better place if the cost of replacing the ink cartridges in a printer was not more expensive than buying a brand new printer complete with ink.

Driving up education standards

There is no doubt at all that there are two problems which society faces.

1) That keeping young people in education is hard.  But the benefits are clear.  Especially when there are few jobs for the young.

2) That car insurance is going up and up and up and especially for young people.

It is interesting that given that nearly everybody learns to drive, the one thing that is not part of the curriculum is driving.  Why is that?

Why would you not offer all A Level students free driving lessons as part of the course.  In the last year of A Levels you would be given free weekly driving lessons.  By doing it for free then more lessons (and perhaps go beyond minimum driving standards for the test) could be undertaken by the student leaving them more experienced.  Thus reducing the number of accidents, thus reducing the insurance costs.

we all thought about what would make the world better?

Welcome to my new blog.  I have written a lot of entries in my normal blog but I wanted to focus on a single theme.  I want to look at ideas around making the world a better place.  What does that mean?  Well even the concept of 'better place' is difficult to define.  Over what timeframe, is better down to just better for me, for me and my friends and family, in the UK, the world, just humans, applied to the planet etc etc.  Its hard.  And part of the focus will be looking at ideas and trying to understand if there are real benefits.

A consequentialist angle may also need to be applied but that in itself is a difficult thing to deal with (motivation vs outcome is difficult to reconcile).

I have no idea if this concept will work but I am going to give it a try and see where this goes.