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36. Metrics for wellbeing with John C. Havens

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The Dark Side of GDP

Technology has gotten so fast so well and I think quite a few services that are offering the avaturistic versions of ourselves whereas most of them are still kind of in the cartoon level. It's only a matter of time where people take on other people's identity and start making scared calls, he says. The economics are not built to help people period they're notBuilt to help individuals they're built to find large but GDP can be an important indicator if there is one key performance indicator both governments and businesses are held to. He points out it doesn't measure things like caregiving or the environment in the same way it measures financial returns.

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