Much, if not all, of modern economics is focused on the perspective of quantity in our world.  We are said to be better off if we have more money or less poverty.  We are said to said to be wealthy if we have lots of possessions as opposed to a few.  A business is thought to be successful if it produces lots of widgets and makes high profits.  Rarely does economics, however, talk about well-being and happiness and never does it talk about sufficiency. Yet if economics is really supposed to aid in promoting the well-being of humankind (which I think it is) then it needs to shift its focus from being a purely quantitative science to a qualitative science.  This qualitative perspective would focus on managing resources to foster human sufficiency….to foster freedom of choice and freedom of expression.  This doesn’t mean that we wouldn’t have businesses and workers and a functioning market system but it does mean that the economy would be geared towards empowering people to choose freely who they want to BE, instead of simply focusing on what they need to consume.