• @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    People have been told their entire lives that the GDP of their nation matters without ever considering what it actually represents, or how it actually went up.

    Great, number go up, but why and who actually benefitted.

    • @madcaesar
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      421 year ago

      The 1%. Productivity has been going through the roof, wages have stagnated for decades.

    • Esoteric Wizard
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      01 year ago

      Excuse the week-old reply but

      People have been told their entire lives that the GDP of their nation matters without ever considering what it actually represents, or how it actually went up.

      You got a poor, poor education if you were never taught why the GDP matters, or what it represents.