> The productivity numbers for the eu are dreadful so something needs to change.
A happy, healthy society does not need to change to meet capitalist productivity goals. Consumption is killing the world, led proudly by the US.
What needs to change are the metrics we use to judge a society, because if financial success leads to the United States, that's the cautionary tale for the rest of the world, not the example.
That may be true if the things driving quality of life metrics don’t require productivity. But many of them clearly do (e.g. social security for the aged in the face of demographic shrinking).
A happy, healthy society does not need to change to meet capitalist productivity goals. Consumption is killing the world, led proudly by the US.
What needs to change are the metrics we use to judge a society, because if financial success leads to the United States, that's the cautionary tale for the rest of the world, not the example.