This is eerily close to the old joke of how economists "know the price of everything and the value of nothing". For this author, the purpose of SF's regulation

This is eerily close to the old joke of how economists "know the price of everything and the value of nothing". For this author, the purpose of SF's regulations seem to be in the realm ok the "unknown unknown". He doesn't even acknowledge the possibility of defining quality of life by anything other than GDP.