A graphic on who owns what of the world GDP
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Lmao
Also, global economic stats are fake and gay anyway.
It's a game of make believe, where what you're measuring is what people believe it's worth, but it could all be gone in an instant if people stop believing.
It's like pronouns; this isn't measuring what it is, it's measuring what it identifies as.
It's worse than that as well. A country that legalizes prostitution would have a higher GDP than a country that does not holding all else constant. A country that has women stay home to cook for men and care for children would have a lower GDP than a country that employed women to care for children and cook for families despite people's quality of life likely better in the former scenario. GDP is a terrible indicator of Quality of Life which is why even "leftists" realized this and started promoting concepts like the "Human Development Index" but this itself is also terribly flawed because it has a huge leftist bias on what "Quality of Life" truly is.
At the end of the day, GDP honestly tells us nothing useful about a society.
Also, considering part of the GDP consideration is imports versus exports...I'm not sure if and how government spending factors in. The ~$100,000,000,000 to Ukraine may provide a bump to GDP on paper...ironically making it look like inflation is less than it is, too, despite helping cause inflation.
All in all, any of these global measurements are a joke because it's rigged for PR no matter what.
This one's better, tells you the companies and what they owned. I had to build a new pc or I'd share it, but there's another one that shows "all of" the banks and how "all of them" "merged" over time. All this shit is owned by the same networks. Fox is no damn better.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221209225312/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/jul/14/food-monopoly-meals-profits-data-investigation
Thank you. That was an interesting article.
It is crazy how good lots of us and our parents & grandparents had it growing up. Something even crazier is how quickly things have gotten shittier lately. But the single craziest thing, is how far we have left to go.
It reminds me of the movie Time Bandits when the kid's parents are buying useless junk all the time. No one really does that anymore. I've argued with my wife about a toaster.
I've stopped spending on anything outside my core home living consumption, personally. I think it has helped reset my brain a little. Something I'm noticing is how needless it has become to invest in any newer electronic devices. In 2005 if someone had suggested I hold off on any gizmo/gadget purchases for like 5 years straight I'd have laughed. But here I am using a noticeably zippy phone from 2018 to browse, a gtx 1070 and an ancient corded logitech controller to game, my $300 2019 walmart tv is literally too smooth and detailed for me to fully perceive. When I was younger, even 5, 10 years ago, I was always interested in how much better the latest greatest thing is... now I'm swimming in so much cool shit I feel I can just tap out forever, and it all works great.
Just imagine, someone out there is shopping for a SMART toaster, right now.
That reminds of when everything connected to the internet to check email. Toasters, cars, pagers, and more would show your email 20 characters at a time.