Does anybody else find it suspicious that some shithole drug addicted town in America has a higher GDP per capita than the nicest areas of a 2nd world country? By virtue of being in a 1st world country, somehow any place immediately has a higher GDP even if that place is a total shithole.
If you copied and pasted a random town from some poor country and put it in America, the GDP would triple.
Maybe I'm just a retard, but how is this possible?
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I suffer living in america
GDP is a meme. America is rotting from the inside as is most of the Western world despite Euros saying otherwise.
Take the rural pill.
GDP is a retarded metric post-deindustrialization / implementation of FIRE economy
If I smashed all the windows in a city, I’d be increasing the GDP by millions each year.
If I donated unsmashable windows to everyone in the city, I will have contributed $0 to the GDP.
GDP does not represent prosperity or quality of life, only the sum value of all transactions being made.
Governments use it as their Jewish weathervane because money printing guarantees that it always goes up.
Rural America sucks almost as much as cities. It sucks that no real villages exist in America anymore. I don't give a fuck about living in a middle of nowhere house in social isolation and driving for 4 hours to Walmart through a bunch of Monsanto farms.
Are there decent places in rural America or is it all like that?
You sound like a soicuck. Grow your own food, live off the land. Just like our ancestors did for millennia.
That actually makes a lot of sense. I knew GDP wasn't an accurate measure of the quality of life, but I never thought of it like that. That destruction can raise the GDP because it's creating "economic activity."
There is nothing organic with American growth. It's all bureaucratic control with central planning, but yet we claim we have no central planning.
Rural America is devoid of most things, compared to like rural Norway which has everything in even the tiniest towns.
Rural America is full of meth labs and crackheads for the most part.
Our ancestors lived in villages. They didn't live in isolation and have to drive their retarded 4x4 lifted truck to go anywhere.
That asshole is literally a Jewish nigger.
You will cheer for the Jews getting richer, and you will be happy with owning nothing
That's what I figured. Rural America feels fucking empty and cultureless. The only places in rural America seem to be a bunch of fucking walmarts and gas stations.
Then fucking leave already.
Lived in both. Would take rural 7 days of the week and twice on sunday. There is no amount of money I would take to return to the city.
The reason we can't have nice shit like that, or the cozy ultra-mini hole in the stores/bars that you see in Japan and other Asian countries is because of the Americans With Disabilities act and a truckload of similar overbearing regulations. Not because of cars.
You ignorant faggots.
It's the worst central planning imaginable. It's literally illegal to build anything nice in America because it'll violate some retarded law like parking minimums or R1-zoning. Why is our country so fucked?
Nothing cool, interesting, or cozy can be built anymore because the fucking regulators will not let you. They are the reason it's all so samey.
It's both though. Traditionally planned towns and cities don't have the space for cars.