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@dlakelan
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Imma just grousing here, but

Still been chewing over GDP, and the more I think about it, the more I generally want to say it's as bad an idea as trying to derive macro (currency sovereign national gov) from micro (household finances).

GDP as a concept is reasoning about a town or national economy as if it were a corporation. It's as bad as CPI or US employment numbers in terms of a metric.