Look at median, and not mean GDP per capita
It's hard to take this seriously when the author mixes up the basic meaning of GDP.<p>> For example, when economists think about how “the economy” is doing, they have traditionally focused on total income (GDP) or per-capita income (mean GDP) as the most important measure.<p>No, they don't. GDP isn't income at all, they're completely different metrics.<p>And in fact the article never mentions "median GDP" like the posted title suggests, it switches to "median income" because median GDP isn't even a thing that you can calculate since it's not a metric that exists for each individual person (therefore no median).<p>How did this get to the front page?