alt Hacker NewsIt's definitely not the best we have though. People have created all kinds of metrics which measured things in better ways more relevant to our human goals. It's an entire genre of publication in economics and some of them are very popular. It's a choice to ignore them.
Also, see what djtango said. It's not that simple.
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boxed • last Friday at 8:06 AM
It's the best that has been used by a society that didn't later collapse though.
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Similarly it’s a choice to ignore all those KPIs that are confounded.
Being pedantic about how we measure progress might create the impression that it’s not about the progress but instead about being right.