• SouffleHuman@lemmy.ml
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    Eventually, I do think we should start moving away from GDP as a primary metric of a country’s performance. Things like life expectancy, access to transportation, fewer working hours, gender equality, etc. matter a lot more to people living there once GDP per capita reaches a certain point. But Japan isn’t really trying to do those either.

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      One of the big flaws I’ve seen for myself with GDP is that is doesn’t account for wealth that is being siphoned out. So, you can have country have a relatively high GDP due to western investors and tourists coming in and driving up spending numbers, while still being dirt poor because all that money being funneled straight back out via trade imbalances, asset takeovers, corruption etc.

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      Eventually, I do think we should start moving away from GDP

      This is my hope, since a few ultrawealthy individuals and multinational corporate conglomerates can heavily weight GDP. One individual or family can be subsisting at or below a couple of currency units per day, starving, sick, unhomed or homed, while another individual has a net worth of several hundred billions.