Again, things are not as clear as you try to paint them. I might say the same thing to you. Your miserable person in a hospital might actually count towards GD

Again, things are not as clear as you try to paint them. I might say the same thing to you. Your miserable person in a hospital might actually count towards GDP, for instance. I'm sure you're familiar with the broken window fallacy, and to me, it still seems to run wild. Regarding your last paragraph, I think we are getting to the crux of the problem. What is the purpose of optimizing for GDP if it can't encompass what's important? It might not even be correlated. So I propose we change the incentives and optimize for something else than "growth", as it were.