> a policy that sacrifices wealth to promote gdp is bad not speaking of any policy. it's much more primitive than that. gdp goes up when there's some problem that people are paying to be resolved, but at least that means that people are putting money into solving that problem. eventually that problem will no longer exist (e.g. cheap indestructible glass or perfect health care). the less problems we have the better. high gdp is one indicator of this positive activity happening. then money is spent on other problems, which eventually get resolved too, until we have no problems left and we have paradise.
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