How come we have to be so focused on growth and not productivity or yield. More means more bad along with the good.

Growing the workforce put downward pressure on wages, causes more pollution and more competition for rents and homes. Population growth puts a greater burden on existing infrastructure (power grid, schools, highways, water systems. You can try to live better by being bigger but it is established that it is more likely you will live better in a country that being better is more important than being bigger. Focus on quality not quantity.

GDP per capita is more important for prosperity than headline GDP. Another problem with Growth as a measure of success, is it does not count the costs. Working people to death at low wages might be great for GDP but it only contributes to the prosperity of upper management and stockholders.

Judging from some of your other stories and your investment non-advice you are of and for the Elite.