this is true, although the nice thing about being human is there are always lots of different ways and metrics we can grow in different areas of life. Most people are generally only focused on the 

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Are people too obsessed with perpetual growth?

There's a legitimate case to be made that if you're not going forward, you're going backward... but yea the herd is high time preference and usually using the wrong denominator. Fiat trash economy breeds fiat trash behavior. 

There's a cultural feedback loop with this too as people subconsciously avoid responsibility and appeal to certain metrics not because they make sense, but because the pass a consensus filter. 

The consensus filter obviates them from having to blame themselves for optimizing for the wrong things if everyone else does it.

