It's not stated anywhere, but this treats GDP as the only metric anyone should bother to examine. I wish the world was so simple that we could boil down economi

It's not stated anywhere, but this treats GDP as the only metric anyone should bother to examine. I wish the world was so simple that we could boil down economic progress to a single metric, but people have been pointing out problems with that since the first attempts to measure national economies. Sure, more people typically means global GDP will go up, but no one cares. What we ultimately want is for per-capita measures, like income or poverty rates, to improve.