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I can't believe you're actually arguing these semantics when one person has to pay 800 dollars for an assistant and the other person gets it for free.

One person's elderly parents never have to worry about being assisted, while the other can only do so if they can afford it. And you're arguing GDP semantics? There is something seriously wrong and sick with this.

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Quit the grandstanding, this conversation is about the GDP and what does or doesn't count towards it. There's nothing wrong with somebody just be cause they kept track of that context instead of getting lost on a tangent.

GDP semantics matter enormously for policy decisions because GDP is the easiest metric to use when making those decisions. But it's a metric and highly biased towards measurable values instead of less fungible ones.

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