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by torginus 309 days ago
That's false equivalence. GDP being gameable does not mean the metric has anything to do with how valuable the output of each individual worker is, yet the metric suggests the opposite - if you made a metric like 'Number of Nobel laureates per large bodies of water', that would imply the presence of large lakes somehow aids or hinders top-tier scientific research, which is obviously a false premise.
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My only argument is that both metrics are gameable in a way.

> if you made a metric like 'Number of Nobel laureates per large bodies of water'

That's a strawman argument.