Post by Peter Bretscher

António Guterres is right: GDP rewards the destruction of our life‑support systems and calls it “growth.” - That should make all of us uncomfortable — because it means our core economic metric is structurally blind. But we’re not limited to a one‑dimensional value logic. If we want to measure real progress, we need to upgrade the architecture of value itself. - By adding a second, perpendicular axis for non‑monetary, subjective, and imaginary value, we can finally make environmental integrity, social cohesion, cultural meaning, and long‑term resilience visible — and therefore manageable. This shift is not cosmetic. It’s a geometric correction to an economic system that has been operating in flatland. - I illustrate this in the blue segment of my “Improvement of Economic Techniques” curve: https://lnkd.in/deNrMFW7 (Picture in comments below) Organizations like UNDP, UNEP-WCMC, OECD - OCDE,, Value Balancing Alliance, The World Bank are already pushing beyond GDP — but without a multidimensional valuation geometry, we’re still trying to fix a 3D problem with a 1D tool. Progress requires more than new indicators. -> It requires the courage to redesign the value paradigm itself. Knut Siercks, Timo Meynhardt, Alex Sieber, Christian Heller, Mark Gough, Sir Ronnie Cohen, Stefano Zambon, Thomas Beschorner, R. Edward Freeman, Sebastian Wörwag, Kai Isemann, Jürg Stricker, Markus Thomas Schweizer,Prof. Dr. Karolin Frankenberger, Klaus Möller, Michael S. Malone,Dietmar Grichnik, Maria Luisa Fuchs, Hans Ebinger, Marcel Stalder, Giovanni Crupi, Mathis Wackernagel, Michael Green, Markus Probst, Markus Mader, Hermine Haug, Mary Adams