Sublime

If I babysit your children for free, economists don’t count it as a service or add it to GDP. It cannot be used to pay a financial debt; nor can I go to the supermarket and say, “I watched my neighbors’ kids this morning, so please give me food.” But if I open a day care center and charge you money, I have created a “service.” GDP rises and, accord

Adam Appich, master of science, is there with several studies that show how legacy cognitive blindness will forever prevent people from acting in their own best interests.

Economic anxieties fuel racial conflict.

“Every billionaire is a policy failure.” Maybe. Or maybe not. But it’s not relevant here. The urgent issue you face is your own economic security, not the virtues of anyone else’s.

industrial era capitalism’s cornerstones undercount costs (ignoring many flavors of loss and damage) and overcount benefits (overstating how much products and services make people durably, tangibly, and meaningfully better off).

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Don’t we benefit when we see our savings go up and up, even when those returns require a kind of human sacrifice?[39] Consumers benefit from worker exploitation, too. We can now, with a few clicks, summon rides and groceries and Chinese takeout and a handyman, all at cut rates.