How do we quantify it? And how do we know that it is not the result of metric-hacking, as the GP commented, and is actually true "innovation"?
> 2. high economic growth
Same as above.
> 3. better salaries
Only for a small slice of the population. Income inequality is growing across the country, and it is not an obviously good thing if a small fraction of the country is getting boundlessly richer while the rest of the country/world suffers.
That is a very special set of metrics and one could argue the opposite using e.g. social and environmental externalities (social safety net/ energy consumption pP...).
The other thing is, is there more real innovation going on or is this just some local hyper optimization of making the numbers go up?
I don`t claim to be the judge/arbiter on this matter, guess i`m glad we can compare both on this world
How do we quantify it? And how do we know that it is not the result of metric-hacking, as the GP commented, and is actually true "innovation"?
> 2. high economic growth
Same as above.
> 3. better salaries
Only for a small slice of the population. Income inequality is growing across the country, and it is not an obviously good thing if a small fraction of the country is getting boundlessly richer while the rest of the country/world suffers.