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stbede
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Fable and the end of the free lunch
I won financially. Encyclopedia sets were expensive.
eru
14 days ago
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Your savings are real, but they don't show up in GDP or a profit-and-loss statement of any company.
KSteffensen
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The cost of buying the encyclopedia becomes disposable income to be used on other consumer goods. In that sense in shows up in lots of other companies profit-and-loss statements.
eru
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Maybe, but that's very diffuse and hard to attribute to Wikipedia.
And it would show up in real GDP, not necessarily in nominal GDP.
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