Because once you change the goal post, it becomes gameable. If we say the better metric is healthcare, housing, and education, then: * Healthcare will be defin

Because once you change the goal post, it becomes gameable. If we say the better metric is healthcare, housing, and education, then: * Healthcare will be defined as “Primary Care Visits with approved in-network physicians”, who will also have proportionally lower pay so those who made that definition can keep more money for themselves * Housing will be redefined to include cockroach-infested squallor, so landlords can pocket more money * Education will have more stratas put in place at higher costs, such that “free” or “baseline” education is increasingly worthless, wages depressed, and only those of means may participate in society All of those circle back to wealth inequality, and is why that metric won’t go away - and why the rich have a vested interest in convincing the poor that it’s everyone and everything else’s fault for their precarity. It’s all about money. When more people have a larger share of the money, better decisions and outcomes are more likely than 1.1% of people hoarding 50% of global wealth for themselves. The math is absolutely that simple, as are the solutions (TAXES).