<i>If you do that, you have no hope of tracking changes in social structures or inequality or wealth accumulation. You would have to track wealth or income too.</i><p>But you wanted to measure &#x27;average &quot;utility&quot;&#x27;, not &quot;social structures&quot;. Utility comes from consumption, not income. You are right that tracking consumption would fail to be a proxy for income inequality (as you now seem to want it to be) because consumption inequality is vastly lower than income inequality.<p>At this point, your metric sounds less like an improvement on GDP, and more like just some other random thing you want to track.