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spixy01/04/20261 replyview on HN

GDP PPP per capita is better measure of quality of life.


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mschuster9101/04/2026

it's not. An economy where only a select few benefit from the GDP (e.g. via stocks - the richest 10% of Americans own 93% of the stocks!) is not a "quality of life" measure at all.

[1] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market...

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