this is a long arc story. i’m not talking about last week. i’m not talking solely about long-distance dispersion. much of what we count as growth is not improvement in welfare terms, but remedy for the costs of the changes incurred by what we last scored as growth. 1/

for example, the cars we buy and gas we spend on commutes is counted as GDP. but if cars were rare, our built environment would place residences near or transit accessible to workplaces. commutes are a remedy to the problems created by how we chose to grow, not actual additions to human welfare./fin