[HPsquared]

"We" being the actual decision-makers, the owners. The class who wants GDP to go up, but doesn't care about GDP per capita.

Edit: I'm undecided if it's capitalist ownership class, or a "late stage socialism running out of other people's money". Still undecided. It's probably both, which is why we're doomed.

[wagwang]

The liberal order(consensus between both sides) of the past 50 years have decided that GDP is the only thing that matters and we should trade everything for it.