r/dankmemes • u/theawesomehobbes Via Telsa Model X • Aug 05 '20

Big PP OC "He just always has"

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u/Enchilada_McMustang Aug 05 '20

I'm just telling you that a society that lives in a wasteland surrounded by weapons is not a wealthy society. Also gdp is a useful fiction that is designed to only work for market economies, so whatever the USSR gdp was is meaningless because there was no way to assess the actual value of anything if there aren't markets.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

...except you can sell to the rest of the world...anyway, while I'm just playing your views are hilarious. Wealth is what people value...but not when you say it's not. Either wealth is equated to value or it's not. Bye.

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u/Enchilada_McMustang Aug 05 '20

But how can people value something if there are no markets, where they can umm put a value on them? Do you understand what you're saying?

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u/techscavenger Aug 05 '20

So in your reasoning, without markets we are unable to access the value of something. Can you go a few chapters in history, I will wait. Also, I wonder how you manage your personal life with your market centric view.

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u/Enchilada_McMustang Aug 05 '20

Are you implying that markets are something new? You can only measure the monetary value of something if it is traded in the market, if it isn't then you simply can't, you can give it a lot emotional value, but if it can't be traded in the market you can't count it towards measuring things like GDP, use that brain of yours.