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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ ( yogthos@lemmy.ml )  to Socialism@lemmy.ml · 4 years ago

We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity

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We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ ( yogthos@lemmy.ml )  to Socialism@lemmy.ml · 4 years ago
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Measuring Economic Productivity Is Pretty Much Bullshit -- We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis Instead Periodically over the last decade (at least) I see media articles -- including some by actual serious economists -- hand-wringing about the supposed decline in workforce productivity in the last decades... (here is
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    That’s what Bhutan does. It’s enshrined into their constitution as the goal of governance, as GNH, and it takes precedence over GDP.

    It’s not without its problems tho, but it is a noble approach, worthy of pursuing imo.

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