[friend_and_foe]

When a metric becomes a target it ceases to be a good metric.

Someone on HN posited that the models we use for economic performance are overfitted, that they no longer actually gauge the performance of the economy. The economy, after all, is about finding optimal distribution of resources, and ultimately, all resources are produced for the benefit of human beings, so if people's experience on the ground, in reality, is that things are bad, maybe quit telling them they're wrong and go find out what's wrong with your models or measures? Just a wild idea, what do I know.