Can you measure if a society is becoming more prosperous?

Over time, a community can become richer, smarter, happier, and healthier --

or its opposite. If you're growing a society, it is important to measure

vital metrics to see the health of a society.

Most social networks monitor engagement by screen time. The problem

is, this metric gives you no indication of user prosperity. It makes

the network operators richer because they are able to sell more

ads, but the more users are engaged in clickbait, the poorer and

more depressed they become.

But let's suppose you instead tried to optimize four unique metrics:

chess rankings (intelligence)

code rankings (skill)

High scores in each field might provide an indirect measurement of a

society's prosperity.