Wellbeing

The alternative to a society that prioritises profit is a society which prioritises quality of life. A strong, productive economy is an important part of our national and personal wellbeing, but it is woefully short of being sufficient. What that economy produces and how, the way power and profit are distributed across that economy, the secondary harm that the economy does, the extent to which it generates tax revenues efficiently, the food it produces to feed you, the  house it builds you to live in – all of these will have a bigger effect on your personal quality of life than abstract measures of the nominal size of what we call 'the economy' but which is actually much more complicated than a single thing.
 A nation of people with the time to spend being with friends and family, relaxing, pursuing hobbies and creating things for joy; a nation whose food makes us healthy and strong, whose houses keep us warm and secure, whose communities are good to live in; a nation of good health and good mental health where people have purpose and meaning; a nation where people do not fear for what they will eat today and do not fear for what they will eat tomorrow and the day after that; that is the alternative to a nation of ill, stressed, time-poor people anxious about the future and ever more impacted by a declining physical and mental space.