The problem comes when you try to define this phrase in a way that’s not a tautology.
Our current economic system defines economic productivity to be the thing that generates the highest economic returns according to the rules of the system.
Without an independently derived set of values the phrase doesn’t have any descriptive value.
You could just as well be describing Bostrom’s paperclip maximizer, and I would suggest, in fact, that this is exactly what you’re doing.
The problem comes when you try to define this phrase in a way that’s not a tautology.
Our current economic system defines economic productivity to be the thing that generates the highest economic returns according to the rules of the system.
Without an independently derived set of values the phrase doesn’t have any descriptive value.
You could just as well be describing Bostrom’s paperclip maximizer, and I would suggest, in fact, that this is exactly what you’re doing.