The FTC has been studying surveillance pricing since 2024 and recently its chairman told a Senate committee it may be time to review its disclosure rules for companies.
GDP measures the value of all goods and services produced in a country. A legal scam can hide as a service and get counted.
This is why cars are good for GDP but mass transit isn’t, because a lot more cost goes into a car than a bus on a per rider basis.
The same goes for health insurance. Simply paying a doctor for services is far less GDP than paying an insurance company who then pays the doctor after taking a cut.
Once you realize what GDP measures a lot of what countries do makes sense.
Why does everything have to be such a fucking scam?
Scams improve GDP
I’m not an economist, but this is probably technically true
GDP measures the value of all goods and services produced in a country. A legal scam can hide as a service and get counted.
This is why cars are good for GDP but mass transit isn’t, because a lot more cost goes into a car than a bus on a per rider basis.
The same goes for health insurance. Simply paying a doctor for services is far less GDP than paying an insurance company who then pays the doctor after taking a cut.
Once you realize what GDP measures a lot of what countries do makes sense.
if i burn down your house, the gdp grows, because lot of people now have work rebuilding it.
So what you are saying is that billionarie houses having to be rebuilt after a fire would great for the GDP.
well yes. but they would make the same argument on behalf of their eighth yacht…
It was a real shame the previous seven yachts sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
A 300MM Ferrari and a 300MM new hospital generate the same GDP.
I remember this discussed in my economics class 20y ago… Whether housewives work should be in GDP. One would hope economists move forward from there.
Yup. But, that dollar changes hands far more times in the society with higher costs. That’s a good thing, assuming costs don’t dwarf income
Because: “fuck you!” that’s why!
aka: uncontrolled late stage capitalism
Because the FTC has been regulatory-captured.
It’s capitalism
again
For real: Because it’s been too long since people rose up and killed a bunch of corrupt shitheads.