It’s a cool idea. This way you try to tie economics to something real, like time and how long people actually live.
But it still has a blind spot. Even if you add life expectancy, you’re basically still reducing well-being to money.
A lot of what actually matters doesn’t fit into that—relationships, freedom, purpose, just enjoying life day to day. None of that shows up in “lifetime earnings.”
So yeah, it’s better than GDP, but it still doesn’t fully capture what living well really means.
It’s a cool idea. This way you try to tie economics to something real, like time and how long people actually live.
But it still has a blind spot. Even if you add life expectancy, you’re basically still reducing well-being to money.
A lot of what actually matters doesn’t fit into that—relationships, freedom, purpose, just enjoying life day to day. None of that shows up in “lifetime earnings.”
So yeah, it’s better than GDP, but it still doesn’t fully capture what living well really means.