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by drewcoo 822 days ago
"The economy" is solely a measure of how rich people are doing financially.

Any other concerns aren't captured there no matter how important we keep saying they are. I think we ought to track a "bloody revolution index" but that would probably just give people ideas.

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Which is exactly why the things that are tracked are the things that are.

To keep from giving people ideas.

I mentioned this not long ago, but by far most people don't know when GDP began to be calculated, plus how & why it got to be that way then, and the way it is now.