Or you have to go to mechanic and get him to fix it, and so on. All of that increases the Gross Domestic Product. You make people sicker by polluting the atmosphere. In fact, what increases the Gross Domestic Product in societies aas they are now organized is often not a measure of welfare in any meaningful sense. There have been efforts to construct other measures which do take account of these things and they give you very different stories.
Most countries do it.
Every year they have a social indicator measure. But there have been efforts to do it. There's one major project at Fordham University, a Jesuit university in New York. For years they've been trying to construct a social health measure for the United States. They just came out with the last volume a couple months ago.