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"... and replace it with a metric which explicitly optimizes for all the policies I personally like."
by knaekhoved 4y ago
"... and replace it with a metric which explicitly optimizes for all the policies I personally like."
- tabtab 4y agoGPD is also personal choice. There's no Grand Law of the Universe which says GDP should be the primary metric. Its importance is an invention of human minds, out of either human nature and/or historical happenstance.
- mola 4y agoOf course. that's the meaning of politics. GDP is not a natural law. Economics it s not a hard science it is full with ideology. The configuration space allowing a functioning society, while constrained, is still very large. we make choices to navigate that space. These choices are based on preferences. It's been a while since a very specific ideology gained a hegemony in economic thinking. As hegemony often does, it pretends to be a natural law, inevitable and unchangeable. It's not.