• tripartitegraph [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    Florida got hit with the strongest hurricane in 30 years back in 2018, and even people from Florida have forgotten about it. It's hard to not be a doomer

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      In an amazing feat of mental gymnastics the destruction wrought by natural disasters is not counted into GDP, but the construction to rebuild is

      • AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml
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        5 months ago

        The current methods of calculating production is a joke anyway. Rent-seeking behaviour increasing property prices factors in as if it were actual production.

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        scientists discover one quick trick to raising the rate of profit by inducing destruction of fixed capital during war