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   Slow Rodriguez (rocc@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 01:51:09 JST Slow Rodriguez

   GDP is a shit metric tbh
   
   Two guys trade a wheelbarrow full of shit back and forth for a year and have one of the best economies in the world

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     受不了包 (shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 01:51:08 JST 受不了包

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     @Rocc i never thought about it this way until luke smith made his video about gdp and then it all clicked immediately

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     Terry Hendrix II 🏹 (thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 02:02:35 JST Terry Hendrix II 🏹

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     I like the Krugman eating shit comic better.

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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 02:02:35 JST lainy

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     @thendrix @Rocc Austrian economics teaches us that value is subjective, so if they really love seeing each other eat shit, who are we to judge?
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     Slow Rodriguez (rocc@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 02:04:54 JST Slow Rodriguez

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     • Terry Hendrix II 🏹

     @lain@lain.com @thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com " let people enjoy things"
     
     Ludwig von mises

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     Terry Hendrix II 🏹 (thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 02:06:20 JST Terry Hendrix II 🏹

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     We all know that’s not true as value is whatever a judge with threat of force says it is, and they can change their minds like the queens they are at any time.

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     Zeb 摆烂 (zeb@merovingian.club)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 05:13:32 JST Zeb 摆烂

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     • Terry Hendrix II 🏹

     @lain @Rocc @thendrix
     The funny thing is they actually performed a job: they cleaned up the bull shit. Obviously not worth the 20k...yet.

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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 05:13:32 JST lainy

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     • Zeb 摆烂
     @Zeb @Rocc @thendrix that’s pretty much the opposite of what they do in irl life
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     Terry Hendrix II 🏹 (thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 05:16:35 JST Terry Hendrix II 🏹

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     • Zeb 摆烂

     Economists in good standing are worse than most other state-sponsored news readers in the scale of their damage.

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