If so, generalized income growth might well raise such assessments at a much slower pace than one might expect from looking at how a rise in an individual’s income relative to others affects her welfare. And, on a related note, benchmarking behavior may well imply a different calculus of the tradeoffs between growth and other economic challenges, such as environmental degradation, than conventional growth models suggest.
不过，在发达经济体，基准行为毫无疑问是人们评估自身福利的重要因素。果真如此的话，那么一般化的收入增长便不可能像相对于其他人的个体收入的增长那样能够决定一个人的幸福。此外，由此产生的一个相关议题是，基准行为还可能暗示，相对传统增长模型，我们必须以不同的算术计算增长和其他经济挑战（如环境破坏）之间的权衡。