This is utter nonsense. It treats peoples lives as the sum of GDPesque production data. GDP, or counting how many buildings and streets and strip malls were bu

This is utter nonsense. It treats peoples lives as the sum of GDPesque production data. GDP, or counting how many buildings and streets and strip malls were built is a totally seperate axis from quality of life. A town could shrink while every single person's life in that town increases because it changes the structure and quality of their of lives.