Just Tom... 🐁 on Nostr: Whenever the topic of GDP comes up, I'm reminded of Robert F. Kennedy's dismantling ...

Whenever the topic of GDP comes up, I'm reminded of Robert F. Kennedy's dismantling of GDP as a metric in 1968 with the summation of his speech: "it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile." increasingly economic activity appears to have a somewhat tenuous relationship with the well-being of society as a whole,many of whose members have seen incomes stagnate while rent seeking entities take an ever larger portion of that already stretched income.