We want to keep things abundant and easy to obtain. We need to look at what the energy costs are, what the sustainability of the production is, and keep population within the bounds of sustainability. Nothing else makes long term sense. I don't see any way to reform the present system. You either measure properly, or you don't.
Money is a partial measure, and flawed even at that.
It makes people into independent agents, we are not independent agents. It ends up in rich and poor, a direct contradiction of our interdependence. It calls things cheap, resources, people, that need to be conserved. I am repeating myself, here, but somehow this needs to sink in. These are basic problems that you cannot fix by raising the price here, putting on a tax there, having people make reports.