# Abundance Needs Measures Beyond GDP by Emad Mostaque > Abundance needs measures beyond GDP. If intelligence stops being scarce and individual capability rises without producing proportionate monetary transactions, the meaningful test is not only what the economy spends but how many people rise from the floor and gain the power to achieve what they can imagine. > **— Adapted from Emad Mostaque**, *Moonshots, October 7, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording and precise locator:** [2:11:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRdb8UmPnh0&t=7911s) — *The Fight Over Claude's Consciousness, AI's 1942 Moment, & Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things"*, Moonshots, October 7, 2026. - **Exact reconciled source excerpt:** “You will again see abundance going up, the capabilities of every individual and the economies increasing. So many of our bottlenecks will be unwound, and it won’t show up necessarily in GDP. We need new measures, such as Eric Brynjolfsson’s GDP-B, or my MIND approach, and others. But the best measurement is just: How many people can we lift up from the floor?” - **Editorial status:** The poster is explicitly labeled **Adapted from** because it consolidates spoken context into a self-contained proposition. It must not be represented as verbatim speech. Numerical claims, forecasts, legal interpretations, and claims about current organizations remain the speaker’s assertions unless separately verified. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/All Things Superintelligence Research - The Coming Manhattan Project - Moonshots|All Things Superintelligence Research — The Coming Manhattan Project — Moonshots]] preserves broadcast order, speaker attribution, timing, and the source-fidelity boundary. - **Preparation ledger:** [[research/All Things Superintelligence Research - The Coming Manhattan Project - Moonshots - Reminder and Wiki Preparation|Reminder and Wiki Preparation]] records candidate 39b, its mechanism, evidence posture, and misreading risks. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Wiki source hub:** [[wiki/Moonshots - The Coming Manhattan Project|Moonshots — The Coming Manhattan Project]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Emad Mostaque|Emad Mostaque]] - [[wiki/GDP-B|GDP-B]] - [[wiki/MIND|MIND]] - [[wiki/Human Agency|Human Agency]] ## Share on Social Media ``` Abundance needs measures beyond GDP. If intelligence stops being scarce and individual capability rises without producing proportionate monetary transactions, the meaningful test is not only what the economy spends but how many people rise from the floor and gain the power to achieve what they can imagine. — Adapted from Emad Mostaque, Moonshots, October 7, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-emad-mostaque-abundance-needs-measures-beyond-gdp ```