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Re:The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else by csomar on Sunday February 08, 2026 @02:54AM (#46932284)
GDP is an arbitrary abstraction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imputed_rent

We could have simply not calculated imputed rent (or all of rents).

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Re:The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else by Retric on Sunday February 08, 2026 @08:19AM (#46933959)
Even in a society of 1 person that person would prefer to live in a mud hut than outside getting rained on. Ignoring imputed rent ignores that value and therefore is objectively wrong.
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