It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them … It counts napalm and nuclear warheads and armoured cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities … Yet [it] does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry … It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.
Bobby Kennedy on GDP: 'measures everything except that which is worthwhile'
