Although you're being downvoted, this is a growing sentiment among researchers and others near the field. There are calls to improve measurements of a society's wealth, as well as individual.

Current headlines use the broad statistics, such as the most exclusive unemployment stats, that don't really capture what's happening on Main Street.

The reporting on the economy barely pokes at issues and are generally just looking for general correlations, such as "Stocks do X as Y does that," or "GDP is doing X while Y is doing Z."