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by Nullabillity 1329 days ago
> First do you really think people will get more injured to game GDP?

Death squads going out and punching people to get them into hospitals? Probably not.

Lowering safety/emissions/etc standards in ways that both lead to increased immediate profit and (hopefully unintentionally) causes an increase in injuries over time? Absolutely.

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There is a balance between worker safety and productivity. Even the CCP who cares about human rights about as much as a shark is still trying to reduce pollution to some degree because the current level is a net negative on GDP.

As such even your example is really about productivity not simply using healthcare to boost GDP.