TRUTH: Josh Kearns on GDP

Renegade chemist Josh Kearns checks in from somewhere between Kolkata (Calcutta) and Thailand with a dazzling, clear-minded essay about the Gross Domestic Product index and why it shouldn't be used as a proxy to measure economic health or societal well-being.

Or, in other words, why money can't buy happiness.

Josh speaks the truth, y'all. Read on.