Two economists are walking through a park. The first economist points at a pile of dog shit and says “I’ll give you $100 to eat that”, the second economist eats it and takes the $100.
A few minutes later the second economist points at another pile of dog shit and says “I’ll give you $100 if you eat that”, the first economist eats it and takes the $100.
Sometime later the first economist says “hang on, I think we both just ate shit for nothing”, the second one replies “not at all, we added $200 to GDP!”
This is different because a corrupt president (and his vice president) started a war to k give taxpayer (and future taxpayers’ money) to defense contractors and their billionaire owners.
But what if a bunch of defense contractors made a ton of money huh? Didn’t think of that did you?
Two economists are walking through a park. The first economist points at a pile of dog shit and says “I’ll give you $100 to eat that”, the second economist eats it and takes the $100.
A few minutes later the second economist points at another pile of dog shit and says “I’ll give you $100 if you eat that”, the first economist eats it and takes the $100.
Sometime later the first economist says “hang on, I think we both just ate shit for nothing”, the second one replies “not at all, we added $200 to GDP!”
This is a brilliant illustration of the stupid GDP fetishism <3
This is different because a corrupt president (and his vice president) started a war to k give taxpayer (and future taxpayers’ money) to defense contractors and their billionaire owners.
Yeah. They literally steal public money to enrich their cronies. It’s been a kleptocracy the entire time.
I did try to rewrite it slightly to fit the actual situation, but couldn’t make it work.
hehehehe
Yeah, except the ones eating shit are the rest of us…
And what about all those who’ve lost family members to an opiod overdose? Or a PTSD suicide?
cannon fodder.