Green Party Calls for Free Time Index to Replace GDP Measure.

I agree that the GDP is a bad index of how well the economy serves people in general, but I haven't seen a good replacement. It would be good to include something like the Free Time Index, but that alone can't do the job. To take an extreme example, if a lot of people are unemployed and starving, they have lots of free time but it isn't a good situation to be in.

Therefore, a good index needs to include other things. It needs to include some measure of whether people have enough income for a comfortable life, as well as not being overworked to get that income.