Yeah, I think the focus on economic growth as some magic thing is BS. What matters is making people happy. Of course that requires a certain material standard:

Yeah, I think the focus on economic growth as some magic thing is BS. What matters is making people happy. Of course that requires a certain material standard: decent size house, car, food, health care etc. But it doesn’t have to mean having the latest iPhone of biggest new flat screen every year. I think it makes more sense to figure out what sorts of services needs to be grown to achieve the goal of society in terms of happiness and well being. A lot of growth is kind of fake. It doesn’t really improve anything other than on paper.