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Im sure this is vapor but if i buy 100 bux of iron from a smelter and sell them 100 bux of smelter parts made from iron then 200 buck growth figure would be a good representation.
Right, but if you buy $100 of iron from a smelter and then make it into $100 of lucky horseshoes, it doesn't really mean there was $200 of growth.
Its does if thats how a body measures growth. Personally i think measuring things with money values is not good practice. Metric tons, calories, labor hours, etc all better imo.
If you sell the horseshoes back to the smelter you made $0 (assuming it cost you $0 in your production process which is realistically impossible) but it does increase the GDP metric by $100.
These aren't horseshoes for horses, they're magic horseshoes for good luck. You're supposed to hang them on your door!
Where's the growth? As far as I'm concerned, $100 of iron just got wasted, nevermind all the labor that also was wasted.