You can’t use your GDP to pay off debts. Wouldn’t it be better if we used how much % of a goverments budget goes towards servicing debts?

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Because the people utilizing debt want to measure it against the largest number they can find… also because, in an extreme situation, the GDP is essentially the value that a government could surrender to creditors.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        The government has the force to seize that if they so choose… it’s unthinkable in America because of our liberties but it isn’t in other nations.

        • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          You’re being downvoted because people only think in the context of their own experiences - hasn’t happened to them so it either isn’t that bad or didn’t actually happen.