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Re:Why We Can't Build by simonsarris on Thursday April 23, 2020 @03:07PM (#22959792)
Percentage of GDP seems like a really awkward measure. Government takes dollars to run and budget makes for a good approximation of size. With GDP, imagine someone invented an amazing technology that 10x'd the GDP of a country. Would you expect the gov budget to 10x in line? That would seem like a terrible capture of resources.

(imagine say, the internet, etc)

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Re:Why We Can't Build by Nasrudith on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:25PM (#22960838)
It still measures effective ROI - and traditionally growth in GDP is accompanied by growing needs. It is true that it is fuzzy - different needs scale differently as well. A 10x GDP rise would almost certainly cause an explosion in demand for other services as well with or without the influx caused by the growtg.
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