Abstract metrics like GDP are extraordinarily easy to inflate artificially. You can destroy something and pay people to rebuild it. If both the destroyer and the rebuilder are AI systems, you can cause suffering and then cure it — generating arbitrarily high GDP. But if you are simply gathering your children in a circle and sharing stories, there is no GDP, because there is no transaction. You are not selling anything; no one is buying anything. You are passing on wisdom to the next generation. Not everything of highest value appears as a transaction. And if you destroy all those meaningful relationships, the profit means nothing.