General Discussion

GDP is a terrible metric. It mostly tells us how the rich and large corporations are doing. For the last five decades GDP has increased benefiting the the top 10% (and really benefiting the top 1%) while ordinary people at best treaded water (many sank).

Democrats cheered as GDP rose under Biden without stopping to consider who was benefiting (hint, it was seldom ordinary workers). Two things can be simultaneously true. GDP can soar while the ordinary people see their economic position erode at the same time.