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• Yet this is not generally true when wealth is highly unequally distributed; in such cases a $10 gain to a mother with a hungry child likely generates substantially higher marginal utility than it would to a billionaire.

• Policies that generate the greatest net monetary benefit may in fact generate a substantially inefficient level of human happiness when we assume that the marginal utility of money is the same for all people.

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