• makyo@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Good thing we didn’t spend the last 50 years attaching everything to the stock market because that would have been a real pain to untangle

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, everything is expressed in monetary value. But health, clean air, clean water, health nature do not have monetary value, so they don’t matter.

      GDP is the total of wealth generated. So a housing shortage, pushes up housing prices, which looks good on the books… look at all that economic growth.