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Something comes out of it which is comparison with other countries and the past.
Again. If you have an alternative metric that is being used elsewhere and has been used in the past you should state it and we can use it to compare.
That's what we do in this country. We cut down trees and sell them, we plow wild lands and turn them into paddocks, we sell milk and fruit. Most of our economy is based on extractive industries.
From Simon Kuznets, who invented GDP as a concept:
If he can question it, then we certainly should instead of just accepting it because “we’ve always done it this way”.
It's like you didn't read anything I wrote at all.