Hmm I wonder. A minor quibble is that some of this was bubble, hallucination. But that is only a quibble. Even subtracting that I don't dispute that GDP increased. Also in spite of increased inequality, the percent of people in absolute poverty decreased. But more substantially a lot of that gain was made at the expense ecological catastrophe. An agricultural metaphor is eating your seed corn. You get some good meals at the cost of starvation next year, I wonder how much growth there was that is both non hallucinatory and also did not involve consuming critical sources and sinks we need to survive in the long run.
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