We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity
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We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity
author and essayist Charles Eisenstein discussed how productivity can be counterproductive when we take it to an extreme: “When we gear our society around efficiency, we produce more and more of the measurable, while the immeasurable, the qualitative, and the things we don’t think to measure drain away. Bedazzled by quantitative abundance, we might... See more
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