Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“In our discussion of GDP to this point, we have seen that it embeds and re-transmits deep descriptive errors, that it doesn’t attempt a distinction between qualitatively very different forms of output: pollution, nuclear weapons, and financial speculation are as valuable to GDPists as housing, food, or medicine. We have seen that this absurd and wildly self-destructive feature of our politics is ignored by both parties. GDP’s dramatic misrepresentation of social reality is tacitly accepted. But GDP is not just misrepresenting or misdescribing; it is actively shaping our policy preferences and decision-making because its flawed model is being treated as a direct proxy for positive social change and progress.” (10/19/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/gdp-as-ideological-scam-part-5