The whole premise that bigger GDP is greater productivity sounds like BS. The economists say, If you got more money for the things you made&#x2F;did, you must have been more productive.<p>But to use a computer analogy: 40 years ago, $100 got you the home version of pong (a primitive computer game) -- today the same inflation-adjusted money would get you something mind blowing.<p>Whoever produced today&#x27;s game is in some sense <i>a million times more productive</i> than the creators of pong (as brilliant as those developers were for the time).<p>As far as I can see, GDP or cost is not the correct measure of productivity. Trying to connect GDP with productivity is like linking stock market performance to the outcome of the Super Bowl -- there <i>might</i> be a relation but it&#x27;s very very very remote and tenuous.