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   • Paleface
   @Paleface All metrics eventually succumb to gamification. I call this Bowsac’s postulate and it’s basically a summary of behavioral rules including:
   >Goodhart's Law — when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure
   >Campbell's Law — over-reliance on social indicators leads to distortion and corruption of the processes they are meant to monitor.
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     • Paleface
     I think that the biggest generational break we'll see in the near future is a growing disdain for macroeconomic measurements. It was easy to buy into the big line argument when it was making things observably better, save some bumps along the way. Younger people feel in their skin that GDP means nothing if they're drowning in niggers. Hopefully such disdain will be enough to ban compilation and publication of any and all macroeconomic numbers entirely, and hopefully to outlaw economics as a science.