Market cap of tech companies is a very poor metric to measure how good a civilization is or how enjoyable it would be to live in. I'm sure if we removed medical

Market cap of tech companies is a very poor metric to measure how good a civilization is or how enjoyable it would be to live in. I'm sure if we removed medical ethics requirements on human experimentation we could rapidly invent powerful new drugs like never before, but we don't because technological progress and economical growth are only two measures of a culture out of many.