Comment by abeppu
7 hours ago
Also this isn't only a gap about environmental issues. If you pay X for child daycare and work but only make X+taxes, and have a dumb pointless job, GDP says the economy is at least 2X+tax larger than if you took care of your own child during the day (bc your employer paid you and you paid your daycare). This seems dumb at an accounting level, even before we consider that you probably get a greater emotional benefit from being with your child than does the daycare worker.
But they’re not measuring nor optimizing for the contentedness of you, or your kids.
They’re measuring money generated for shareholders, they’re measuring tax base.
I think the point they were trying to make is that they are measuring and optimizing for the wrong thing
I am agreeing with that point,
and providing speculation why it’s unlikely to change.