News China seizing TSMC would be 'devastating' for U.S. economy, Commerce Secretary says

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Oh no. That was for my own curiosity. You see, I too did not know about the history of today’s socioeconomic ills and this burgeoning movement away from measuring national “success” by GDP.

I also do not aspire to be this guy: https://xkcd.com/386/


It was one of the examples, but in the vein of “GDP doesn’t capture needless products consumed within the nation itself at an inflated price.”

This might be a better one:

The overall point made by the author is that GDP figures are just accounting tricks, sleight of hand.

Seems like the author wrote an opinion piece, not one based in economic fact. GDP was never a metric of social wellness nor individuals within the economy and their economic wellness, and even if it were, the US ranks highly with both metrics, though not the best. That furthers my point that GDP, by design, is a metric of economic totality.