alt Hacker NewsHow is that, I don't get it?
> Gross Domestic Product (GDP) includes consumer spending, government spending, net exports, and total investments.
How is that, I don't get it?
> Gross Domestic Product (GDP) includes consumer spending, government spending, net exports, and total investments.
A lot of government spending is (again, technically) them giving money to the folks who spend the money to produce GDP-y things. NASA hires Boeing, ICE buys cloud services from Microsoft, the military buys Starlink, etc.