I'm not an economist, so I don't know what productivity means in a technical sense. But I think optimizing for productivity may be missing the point, if it simp

I'm not an economist, so I don't know what productivity means in a technical sense. But I think optimizing for productivity may be missing the point, if it simply means some rate of product creation with respect to human and natural resource inputs. This I can see ending in the same old questions - what exactly did Plato mean by the good life, and how do we optimize for it as a species, or at least minimize suffering at the same scope.