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
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.