I'm 100% with you. I'd quibble with the phrasing of "create a better world for us", since I think that lends itself to very mushy, subjective notions of "good" rather than "economic good", but you're absolutely right.
The problem is not, "how do we create more GDP" (forever and ever and ever) it's "is there demand which is not being met by supply." At the core, that's what a recession is. The answer is clearly yes in some industries (health care comes to mind) and is clearly no in other industries (real estate and retail comes to mind).
You can't just will an economy of 300m people to a certain state. If people spent more time thinking about optimal long term outcomes and then spent their time removing impediments to those outcomes, instead of pretending like there's some magic incantation that is simply being _blocked_, we'd be having a much more productive national conversation right now.
The problem is not, "how do we create more GDP" (forever and ever and ever) it's "is there demand which is not being met by supply." At the core, that's what a recession is. The answer is clearly yes in some industries (health care comes to mind) and is clearly no in other industries (real estate and retail comes to mind).
You can't just will an economy of 300m people to a certain state. If people spent more time thinking about optimal long term outcomes and then spent their time removing impediments to those outcomes, instead of pretending like there's some magic incantation that is simply being _blocked_, we'd be having a much more productive national conversation right now.