Happiness is a complex, multi-faceted thing to measure and is not a good direct target. You want more specific, granular goals that are important for those. Thi

Happiness is a complex, multi-faceted thing to measure and is not a good direct target. You want more specific, granular goals that are important for those. Things like health, wealth, social connections, leisure, education, etc. And GDP is a decent metric to track the economic aspect. It's not perfect, but nothing is, and the answer is to find and improve the metric instead of "throw away and ignore". And, the data clearly shows https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-vs-happiness https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-vs-happiness GDP has a very strong correlation with happiness. Economic policies should take GDP into account, and suggesting NOT to do so is simply stupid. The policy makers should also look at and incorporate climate issues, and many others. > Fetishizing the GDP will only accelerate the climate problem. I'm afraid this is not a useful framing, and mostly a straw man argument that makes the discussion unproductive. Most countries and their politicians are not pursuing "GDP at all cost" type of policies.