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		adgjlsfhk1 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 996 no, if you trade a dollar back and forth 1000 times with a friend, you are adding $1000 to the GDP.

graemep 6 months ago [–]

If you pay someone a dollar, that is because they supplied you with something worth a dollar - i.e. a dollar's worth of value added to the economy.

adgjlsfhk1 6 months ago | [–]

right, but if an item goes through 10 different factories to be assembled the price each pays from the previous gets added to GDP.

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