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Comment by kolbe

9 years ago

>I think that every adult US citizen should get an annual share of the US GDP.

This is an odd way to phrase it. GDP is a measurement of consumption (which is taxed), investment (which isn't taxed until it gains), government expenditure (which is often the action of sharing wealth itself), and net exports (which actually does make sense to share). I think that you want to make more of a direct correlation between a country's wealth and its citizens' wealth, but this is not a great framework for it. I don't know what is, but you should talk with some economists to dive further into this thought.

In general, I'd criticize this for being too vague. The topic you're trying to conquer could maybe be genuinely addressed by Richard Rorty doing a very well funded 5 year research and philosophical study. An investment manager just writing a few words about what is going on in his gut doesn't really do it for me, especially when so much is hand wavy and imprecise, and what is specified (some benchmark to GDP) doesn't really make sense.