“GDP is not an *arbitrary* metric of economic performance. It’s not as though it’s some kind of a mistake - an accounting error that needs to be corrected….It externalises social & economic costs because capitalism externalises social & economic costs. It’s naive to imagine that if policy makers stop measuring GDP, capital will automatically cease its constant pursuit of ever-increasing returns.”
From Jason Hickel’s Less is More, which should be required reading for every politician