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danielquinn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

It does, and it’s one of the reasons GDP is a dumb measure for quality of life. One of the primary factors for measuring GDP is consumption, so if as a society you start growing more food locally, sharing childcare among family, or just choose to repair what’s broken rather than buy more plastic crap, your GDP craters in the face of all of these.

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