[avianlyric]

There’s more to life than GDP. Economic growth is poor measure of collective happiness or quality of life. Are you going to argue that average quality of life in china is substantially better than Europe because their GDP growth is higher?

[playday]

Going back to the original article, the subject is regarding ergodicity and economic benefits of cooperation. The commenter I’m replying to extended an analogy to claim that this research extends to certain countries social welfare system. My position is that this extension is outright false, that just because cooperation can create benefits under the conditions of the research, it doesn’t demonstrate economic growth results from social welfare policies.