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Re:China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more... by analognoise on Monday August 30, 2021 @04:19PM (#28360433)
I never said it wasn't important, but we literally have the largest GDP - we won, game over! And we don't have universal healthcare.

It's like we've confused a metric (GDP) with success; we maximized the metric and can't even wake up and realize it's not what we were actually trying to accomplish.

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Re:China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more... by yuy910616 on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:15PM (#28360944)
what is success then? what are you trying to accomplish?

I'd argue the best way to accomplish whatever you're thinking about that we should be accomplishing - something that is hard to measure - is by maximizing GDP. Because GDP is correlated with everything you're thinking about accomplishing.

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