The One Real Economic Indicator: ‘Upgrade to Premium’

If you want to escape immiseration, that option is available–upgrade to Premium.

I propose we set aside the conventional economic measures (GDP, unemployment, corporate profits, etc.) in favor of a more real-world metric: how many times we’re hectored to “upgrade to Premium” to regain services that were once part of what we already paid for.

I submit that this metric is a far better measure of what’s really going on in the economy than abstractions like GDP which say nothing about our real-world...