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by baby_souffle 464 days ago
How does this account for the different classes of things that go into a GDP?

The US imports a lot of goods because we can't or don't want to make them here. Meanwhile, the bulk of US GDP is services done by knowledge workers...

I am certainly not an economist but it seems like it would be a hell of a lot harder for the United States to build a bunch of factories and learn how to run them compared to the effort other countries would have to go through to import knowledge workers to build their own local services.