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There’s also the fact that a lot of those dollars moving are against people’s will or for stupid, inefficient reasons.
If we each paid each other a thousand bucks an hour not to hit each other then that grows GDP without doing anything useful.
Well shit, here's a thou- wait. To not hit me? I dunno, I'll give you, like, 50 bucks.
But think about how much this could be taxed, this looks like zero-sum if you pay the same to me that I pay to you, but it is negative sum for us, and the government benefits from all the shuffling.
Now it looks like another incentive to create inefficient meddling processes with extra steps.