About the algorithm

ArkPeople Value, or how valuable your life is, can be represented in terms of the cost-effectiveness of your contribution to society. This can be expresses as the ratio of the value of your social function to the cost of this function.



Social Value = Social function/Cost



The above equation shows why some seemingly valuable people may actually have a low Social Value.



For example, financial specialists play a very important role in the economy. However, since their cost (mostly remuneration) is high compared to other professions, their Social Value is relatively low.



In contrast, teachers will have a very high Social Value since, at a relatively low cost, they perform a very important social function.



In calculating the value of your social function, we use only one measure: how much happiness your life brings to other people's lives.



Our algorithm considers the following two basic components of happiness: Whereas a long life is easy to define, the goodness of one's life is much more difficult to measure. Examples of factors that contribute to the goodness of one's life include: More comprehensively, factors contributing to the goodness of one's life can be classified according to Maslow's pyramid of needs:



maslows-hierarchy-of-needs (56K)

(More about Maslow's hierarchy of needs)