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      "title": "The Exchange Rate Problem",
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      "statement": "Can outcomes in different causes (a life saved, a species protected, a law changed, a child educated) be compared on a common scale, and where must comparison stop?",
      "progress": "A comparison method that people holding different moral frameworks accept as fair for at least some pairs of causes, with the pairs it can’t compare stated openly.",
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    "body": "\n## Why it matters\n\nEvery choice between two causes is an exchange rate, whether or not anyone writes it down. Writing it down lets people argue about it.\n\n## Where to start\n\nHealth economics already compares treatments with quality- and disability-adjusted life years. Wellbeing research proposes life-satisfaction measures. Each scale carries a moral framework inside it. The work is to map which scales each framework accepts and where every scale breaks down. Charitology’s [frameworks data](/tools/public-api/) is a place to begin.\n"
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