Abstract
This chapter discusses the interpersonal aggregation and comparability. Each individual had a unique cardinal scale of utility, and this for everyone had been put together in a gigantic book, published in heaven. One wanted to use these cardinal utility indicators in a social choice involving two alternative social states, x, and y. After adding up the differences in the utilities between x, and y for the individuals, the sum came out positive, and using utilitarianism one declared x to be socially preferred to y. People started feeling a change in their utility scales. It was announced in heaven that people's utility scales had changed.
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