I think no one could argue that the creators index does not in any way reflect their values. But that doesn't make GDP any better as a measure. Think of it this

I think no one could argue that the creators index does not in any way reflect their values. But that doesn't make GDP any better as a measure. Think of it this way, what country would you have liked to be randomly born into the most? The one where you will be able to participate in society no matter who you are, or the one where a subset of the population makes the most money? Would you like to be born into Saudi Arabia as a woman?* They have a great GDP per capita. I think we have to accept that there is no objective measure of success of a country. In fact we haven't even figured out how to measure success of a company reliably, even if we constrain our self to measuring shareholder value. The best we can do is try finding measures that somehow correlates with quality of life and be explicit about what we are measuring. * In case you are not sure, you don't want to be born into Saudi Arabia as a woman.