[PEN-L:6265] Re: Compounding folly: the Kelvinator fetish

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Walker wrote:

>Doug is not going to like my questioning of bourgeois statistics.

It's fine with me. Bourgeois economic statistics are designed to measure
life under capitalism, and they do a fairly good job of it. They don't tell
you anything about alienation, atomization, overwork, or ecological
ruination. Well you can see some of that in crime, poverty, and
environmental stats, but you know what I mean. A 4.5% rise in real GDP
means what it says it means; it doesn't say the stock of human happiness
has increased by 4.5%.

Doug