You have two households that do a standard amount of cooking, cleaning, home maintenance, ect -> no GDP generated.
Each household pays someone from the other household $100/day to come over and do the same cooking, cleaning, and maintenance -> $200K of GDP magically appears out of thin air.
TIL that there was no economic growth in the country that went from wooden ploughs and illiteracy to exploring outer space within a generation.
"economic growth" means "the profits of the bourgeoisie"
GDP is so meaningless and elusive.
You have two households that do a standard amount of cooking, cleaning, home maintenance, ect -> no GDP generated.
Each household pays someone from the other household $100/day to come over and do the same cooking, cleaning, and maintenance -> $200K of GDP magically appears out of thin air.
Never forget that a Communist was the first man in space :yuri: