Care externalities

Economist and researcher Katja Grace, writing on LessWrong, explores an overlooked category of economic externalities: the unaccounted effects our personal life decisions have on the people who care about us. She argues these 'care externalities' — the ripples from our choices felt by family and friends — might be as significant as traditional ones like pollution or traffic congestion, yet rarely appear in economic analyses.

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