I think you and the blog post author are making the same mistake. You're just not putting a dollar value on these social costs. If the blog author valued their partner's feeling they would enumerate upsetting them as a cost and it wouldn't be so clear that you're earning $500. But rather you're earning $500 less the cost to your personal relationship.
This is a similar mistake to failing to price other intangibles like risk.
It’s an odd mistake to make, since it implicitly recognizes that someone may value the experience of seeing the concert more than $500, but fails to recognize that someone may value their close social relationships more than $500.
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I think you and the blog post author are making the same mistake. You're just not putting a dollar value on these social costs. If the blog author valued their partner's feeling they would enumerate upsetting them as a cost and it wouldn't be so clear that you're earning $500. But rather you're earning $500 less the cost to your personal relationship.
This is a similar mistake to failing to price other intangibles like risk.
It’s an odd mistake to make, since it implicitly recognizes that someone may value the experience of seeing the concert more than $500, but fails to recognize that someone may value their close social relationships more than $500.