Is GDP the correct way to measure nation wealth?

[oldtime]

Quote from Humpy:

Of course GDP isn't much of a measure.
Wealth is a bit like happiness ! The more you look for it the more it eludes one.The USA is wealth obsessed and.. is bankrupt to the tune of 17 trillion.
Take Madagascar which was better off before the greedy money grubbers destroyed it's natural and unique heritage of animals and plants. They have bulldozed the jungle and now there are rows of cassava money making plants as far as the eye can see. They ruined a once beautiful island and for what ? Figures in their computerised bank accounts.

The sooner people get sensible the better. The Amazon and other jungles are already on the danger list. If the Brazilians for instance had an ounce of good sense they would blast the illegal loggers and their massive machines to kingdom come and good riddance.

The only thing preserving the Congo jungles are the idiots are too busy fighting each other. Some people made fortunes supplying guns. Let's hope they destroy themselves sooner rather than later.

all you know about USA is what you see on tv

 

[Random.Capital]

Quote from oldtime:


sausage gravy at Random's house Saturday morning

Hell yeah.

But stewing up a lamb or goat before it's weaned and had a chance to put some meat on that skeleton? Nah, that I won't do, it would be like having a whack of chickens and never hatching an egg.

Those dusty old dudes were bang on...don't boil the kid in its mother milk...

 

[oldtime]

Quote from Random.Capital:

Hell yeah.

But stewing up a lamb or goat before it's weaned and had a chance to put some meat on that skeleton? Nah, that I won't do, it would be like having a whack of chickens and never hatching an egg.

Those dusty old dudes were bang on...don't boil the kid in its mother milk...

don''t forget, it use to be just old laws written by men, but since you Chriistians took over, it is now "The Word of God" so you also have to burn down your houses if they get mildew. (it's in there, look it up.)

but getting serious

I just saw on Natural Geographic, when monkeys evolved and started walking upright, it made childbirth painful

Wasn't that the curse God inflicted on Adam and Eve?

and don't even get me started about the battle between farmers and herders

what were their names? Cain and Able?

nothing worse than planting a field and having a bunch of herders run through it

but kind of hard to find the "Promised Land" if you are already tied down to the last field you planted.

and that is why God likes nomads who eat meat.

it's all in there

just read the book

(the movie wasn't that great)

 

[oldtime]

at anyrate, we now own Israel (the Promised Land) and are just barely hanging on, and couldn't do it if all the Christians didn't beleive it was "The Word of God"

It isn't easy running a two testemant scam

and that is why I am glad I believe in "The Word of God" and not the Koran.

So yes, GDP is the best way to measure a nations wealth.

It's what we have always done

and I don't see any reason to change it now

TRADITION!