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this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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Driving cars is important to the economy.
Another reason why measuring economic success in GDP is stupid.
It's better to measure wealth disparity.
I myself would favour to use:
• median net discretionary GDP (PPP) per capita
• generalised entropy index
• Social Progress Index
The first one yields that 50% of the population can buy more or less than a certain amount of stuff, after tax and regular expenses (groceries, utility, rent, etc.)
The second could be used for wealth disparity. Unlike the Gini index, it allows you to view differences by groups.
The third is very broad and does not use economics, instead focusing on general wellbeing. That is a strength, as it enables comparisons between wealth and wellbeing. Some criticism I have on the index though, is that on regards of inclusivity, it doesn't include the (very good) Asher Fergusson index for trans rights. LGBTQ+ isn't just gays and lesbians, it's all queer people.
I'd also add in the Copenhagenisation index for bicycling, alongside with indices for pedestrian and public transit-friendliness.
For countries occupying other areas, count those areas both separately and include them in that country's statistics. So then Israel's statistics are actually honest: the inequality is extremely high, life expectancy very low, and so on.
And the more the state deports/kills/mistreats in those occupied areas (as reported by the victims), the worse in the statistics. The fewer possibility to honestly ask them, the even worse on statistics.
To top it off, within the safety part of the social progress index, I'd include the detained population as a rate of the total, perceptions of state (and hybrid) violence, as well as extent of surveillance, police and para-military, armedness.
Oh, and it'd be better to have sources be independent from state and corporatist actors.
What that joke is missing is the fact that the $200 is taxable income so the government and its citizens would benefit from that transaction.
IF you had a functional social safety net, however in this circumstance you would eat shit, pay taxes, a family in Palestine would die, and a rich person would have a couple extra dollars towards the next extravagant pedophilia convention in Florida
Maybe Ukraine would be given a missile to defend itself.
I’d be okay with that.
Sorry, all you get is a Ukraine that is in debt for the next 100 years as Euro-American megacorporations pillage the land and opportunists purchase its women and children for their own satisfaction. The men, of course, are sent as mercenaries into a neverending meatgrinder against whatever enemy we decide they should fight this week.
Yes of course. In reality, capitalists would take 40% of that GDP produced and the state another 20%. So you'd be left with 40% of the "value" you produced while eating shit.
It is important to be miserable and waste resources so that the rich can get richer. The benefits will come when trickle-down economics start working. We've just got acid rain so far but there will be money falling from the sky any moment now.
when you definitely understand what words mean
Which country's economy?
America, the greatest nation in the galaxy.
No, transportation in general is. Cars are by far the least efficient form of transportation and therefore the worst for the economy.
The worst until we get to private jets and helicopters
the economy is made up to distract you so they can destroy communities for profits.
Upvoted because I'm all but certain this is sarcasm flying under the radar. Like, I've seen you around (your name name is pretty hard to forget), and generally you have good takes. Chaotic, but that's not a bad thing.
We really need a widely used subtle sarcasm indicator
@ChaoticNeutralCzech @cravl
It existed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony/_punctuation