[CrazyStat]

No, I'm not. Most people don't understand the details of either corporate or national accounting, and the very important difference between an annual production measure like GDP vs a total market value measure like market cap will be lost on them, especially in passing.

[lapcat]

Again you're speaking for "Most people" with no empirical evidence or polling.

Let me take a turn though: "Most people" aren't reading a Jacobin article at all. The only relevant audience is the readers of this article.

[CrazyStat]

Unfortunately readers of Jacobin are perhaps particularly unlikely to understand the details of corporate and national accounting.

[lapcat]

You're one of them.

[CrazyStat]

Only in passing.

[lapcat]

Thereby admitting that you actually know nothing about readers of Jacobin, and your slur was completely unjustified.

[CrazyStat]

Bad reasoning. I bet you don't watch Newsmax, but you probably know some things about people who watch Newsmax.

I wanted to make a joke about it being exactly the kind of reasoning a Jacobin reader would use, but I'm refraining.