What we are measuring at the moment is how to get bigger expressed in money. Interestingly, the only thing that has value must have a price. When we use the word priceless, it means it has enormous value.
The love of my wife is priceless to me. For economists, when it is priceless, it means that it is zero value because the only thing that counts is Money. As human beings, we are born tiny.
We start with just cells and then we grow. Just imagine that you and I would be growing forever. We would become giants when your economy is mature, it doesn't need to grow any longer.
You basically have to move away from making policies that serve only one category of people. And these are the capital owners. What we need are policies that serve So instead of focusing on this objective to grow the economy forever, you look Beyond Growth to something that really matters, which is LIFE.