I’m not a fan of GDP as any measure of anything. Buying a piece of sausage from a supermarket through a chain of middle men, industrial meat processing companies, slaughterhauses and livestock traders generates many times more GDP than buying the same sausage from a neighbouring farmer even though there is absolutely no added value. I am convinced that GDP measures mostly how bizantine are chains of production and trade networks and how many corporate middle men extract money from workers between production and consumption of anything.

They were always shitting on teens doing anything even remotely individualistic and constantly talking about being humble. That’s how I viewed my parents and grandparents generations between 90s and circa 2010.

What happened to right wingers? I clearly remember that narcism was universally considered a bad trait especially among conservatives. How are they accepting that?

At least 3 years ago their families had a chance to get a new Lada when they die. Now I would be surprised if they got anything more than a sack of potatoes.

That’s a weird cult they have going on there. I’m quite sure people weren’t this crazy 20 years ago. In my country we are having elections this year and out of curiosity I watched debates from the 90s, I was astonished that there was at least some discourse, conversation and that politicians were talking about real problems while bringing up real data. Idiocracy seems more real than ever.