There’s more to life than money, but societies can struggle to express it. When we talk about the state of nations and their citizens, we tend to boil it down to a few economic indicators. These can tell us a great deal, but don’t quite tell us everything. The untouched stretch of woodland, the arts in education, the close-knit community, the healthy childhood: there are plenty of things that cannot always be weighed on this scale.
And this is a problem, particularly for people who want to hang on to
