Growth is a very general metric. It obviously matters less to those not active in the system. It does beg the question: how do they become active in the system? How do they benefit? One imagines that those questions, actions, strategies, risks that pertain to getting jobs would be valuable? 

The cynic in me says that people must engage with those questions because they are forced to engage with a whole host of issues: education, capital, labour, competition, regulation, and infrastructure that are not straight forward to fix, and that only they can. 

I guess the analogue would be not caring about national election policy.