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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 11:33:52 JST Bread up, Bro
   Terminal managerialism brain
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     Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 22:19:43 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     @sickburnbro Literal nigger-tier thinking.
     
     "Food doesn't come from farms, it comes from supermarkets."
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 22:20:46 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Dr_Enwurd_Nigma
     @Dr_Enwurd_Nigma @TrevorGoodchild it shows a lack of critical thinking that GDP doesn't measure criticalness of a product.
     
     They literally think "if something is important, it will be expensive!"
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     Dr_Enwurd_Nigma (dr_enwurd_nigma@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 22:20:49 JST Dr_Enwurd_Nigma

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     @TrevorGoodchild @sickburnbro "How dare you hunt instead of getting your neatly sliced lunchmeat from the sustainable lunchmeat tree"
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     Jens_Rasmussen (jens_rasmussen@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 22:26:49 JST Jens_Rasmussen

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     • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:
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     Isn't food production generally quite subsidized in the west, meaning that it is intentionally cheap?
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 22:32:23 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Jens_Rasmussen @Dr_Enwurd_Nigma @TrevorGoodchild there are subsidies yes, but I don't think GDP-wise it would somehow make it grow for 0.6% to like 5%, so it's not relevant. When you look at GDP it was ~$25 Trillion. so 0.6% is 150 billion. I could believe the subsidizes for food might add 50 billion in value, but then that takes it to what? 0.8% of GDP?
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     The Forbidden Dreamer (forbiddendreamer@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 22:32:44 JST The Forbidden Dreamer

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     • Dr_Enwurd_Nigma
     @Dr_Enwurd_Nigma @TrevorGoodchild @sickburnbro No, he was being a bit more literal than that...
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     Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb: (trevorgoodchild@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 22:37:16 JST Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:

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     @sickburnbro @Jens_Rasmussen @Dr_Enwurd_Nigma GDP is a meaningless metric in a nation that has the exorbitant privilege of printing the world's reserve fiat currency (for now)
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 22:38:04 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @TrevorGoodchild @Jens_Rasmussen @Dr_Enwurd_Nigma because GDP includes government spending, when the purse is wide open because you can make the world pay for it, it is very silly indeed.
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     Special Guest Star (s2208@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 22:38:16 JST Special Guest Star

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     What’s the GDP of everyone starves to death?
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 22:38:16 JST cjd

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     There's a lot of these type of things, they're really under-appreciated, except for when you don't have them.
     
     Another good example is machine tools. A rounding error in the economy, but the moment you lose the capability to make weapons you're getting invaded.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 22:45:32 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @cjd @s2208 I think this is the same question of "how do you compute ROI on a capex where there is a 50% of the regime exploding and then the next honcho nationalizes our stuff because we had to grease the skids with this slimeball to get them to play ball"
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 22:45:34 JST cjd

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     How do you compute ROI on an investment that's either:
     1. Too cheap to be profitable, or
     3. Society is fucking collapsing.
     
     Market economies have no answer to this, in every country, governments step in and "national security priority" them so they can be funded out of tax money ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 03:21:01 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Paleface @TrevorGoodchild @Jens_Rasmussen @Dr_Enwurd_Nigma GDP by itself is not a harmful metric. The problem is when it became a target rather than a simple calculation.
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     Paleface (paleface@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 03:21:02 JST Paleface

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     I've been saying this for a long time: after we win any attempt to calculate GDP will be a capital offense.