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This type of analysis is utterly insane and morally bankrupt, sorry
The trouble with economics is that we layer on so many assumptions and obfuscations when we try and think about things in terms of eg GDP that we end up entirely abstracting ourselves from the things that actually matter and instead saying things which are utterly, utterly stupid