@ChristiJunior @DireGoy @Ninomiya GDP used to be indicative of the prosperity of the common man, that went out the window when corporations took over (sometime around the 80s when the supreme court started siding with corporations on everything).

Nowadays, Disney buys Pixar for $4B and Lucas Films for $4.1B, that's $8.1B added to the GDP, but the world is made worse for it, not better.

Corporations moving papers around isn't real GDP.
GDP stands for "gross domestic product", but the GDP no longer represent productivity to a meaningful degree.