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Re:The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else by theyjbfjvuncf on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:07PM (#46936223)
No it's actually perfect.

GDP measures exchange of money with the assumption that this is a proxy for actual economic output... except cases like this where monetary exchanges like this which accomplish nothing.

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Re:The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else by knose on Sunday February 08, 2026 @02:12PM (#46937465)
i assume the joke is that the three stooges are too stupid to realize that because they all owe each other $20 there is no debt, and they show this by accident by passing a $10 dollar bill around until it ends up back with larry. it says nothing about GDP.
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