Actually that's probably really good for GDP, just not over the kind of time periods an individual human deals with or cares about.
> We've tied our incentives to a structure which is not in alignment with continued survival. The real question is how can we incentivize ourselves to continue to exist?
The continued survival of individuals or humanity as a whole? The individuals seem to survive OK, and arguably there's nothing that could convince them to prefer the survival of the amorphous group, save for some kind of brainwashing.
Heh, that's a very good point. GDP begins to correlate with the biosphere over sufficiently long timespans.
We shouldn't be optimizing for quarterly returns, but for the next ten thousand years.