Why It's Bad to Have High GDP

• GDP is a metric of economic exchange required for survival in society as it exists.
• You can say that some area "produced" $1 billion of output (sounds good), but you can just as easily say that $1 billion was required for that area to sustain itself (sounds bad).
• The reality is that that often uttered phrase means that they use less than $1 a day in the general economy, while the rest of their livelihood is "off-the-grid" or self-sufficient. They may grow food in a family farm, hunt for food, and most of their daily needs from cooking oils, to plates, to pottery, to soap are often made at home as well.

• When you abandon the illusion of GDP, you are suddenly able to ask whether massive technological "progress" has _actually_ been good for real human life and human pychology.

  - Don't like globalization?
  - You're wrong, the GDP is going up.
  - Don't trust state-funded institutionalized science?
  - You're wrong, the GDP is going up.
  - Don't want child drag queens?
  - You're wrong, the GDP is going up.
  - Don't want everything to be made of plastics and other petrochemicals?
  - You're wrong, the GDP is going up.
  - Don't want mass pornography?
  - You're wrong, the GDP is going up.
  - Don't want free sugary drinks since infancy?
  - You're wrong, the GDP is going up.