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If I pay you $1 trillion to write a song and you pay me $1 trillion to draw a picture, we have just increased the GDP by $2 trillion yet nobody is better off.

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Well now you have a song and they have a picture.

You would never do it, though, because you’d owe whole bunch of money to the government.

If we do this under our respective businesses and our net profits are both $0, what money would be owed?

If you owe 30k to irs - you have a problem. If you owe 30 trillions - irs has a problem.

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