in this case it is apt though because the actual goal is not turning "into the thing that everyone hates about the modern web." according to the antiscaling category but the metric given for avoiding that is making money.
profit is usually not the misplaced metric, because profit is the goal.
But if you have another goal such as well-being of the people of your country then you might set up GDP measures and call it a success when everyone is miserable. (I know GDP does not directly measure profit, this is in the nature of a real world example how something usually not thought of as a Goodhart's law measure might actually work)
profit is usually not the misplaced metric, because profit is the goal.
But if you have another goal such as well-being of the people of your country then you might set up GDP measures and call it a success when everyone is miserable. (I know GDP does not directly measure profit, this is in the nature of a real world example how something usually not thought of as a Goodhart's law measure might actually work)