Many countries attach great importance to GDP, a core indicator of national economic accounting, but there are many ways to increase GDP.
The key to boosting GDP is to cross the basic food and clothing line as soon as possible. Once the per capita GDP exceeds 7,000 US dollars, the subsequent GDP growth rate will be as rapid as "opening up" when playing online games. For example, first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen have already crossed this line. Their economic strength is very strong. Unknowingly, the local service industries such as western food, Japanese food, bathing, and even bird walking have a huge scale. Consumers.
Assume that the needs of human beings are: A. High-level emotions, B. Intermediate needs, and C. Basic food and clothing. Only when C is satisfied can A and B have a market. It should be noted that A and B can grow almost unlimitedly, "You serve me, I serve you", without consuming too much raw materials.
The key to the high output value of the service industry lies in A=100C. When a person has solved basic food and clothing, he tends to pay more attention to spiritual pursuits, and he is naturally willing to spend more money for some emotional touches. For example, some people may spend millions of dollars to buy a painting or a vinyl record. These items may be worthless in small places, but they can become GDP in big cities. Therefore, the key to increasing GDP is to let the people go through the food and clothing stage as soon as possible.
But if the productivity has not reached this level, people have just passed the basic food and clothing stage, and they are still afraid to spend money. At this time, A=30, what should be done?
The answer is simple: lower C. A=30, C=0.3, isn't A also exactly 100 times that of C? The specific method is to provide subsidies to lower the price of basic daily necessities. To give a simple example, Denmark's per capita GDP is about 60,000 U.S. dollars, and Malaysia's per capita GDP is 9,676 U.S. dollars. Is Denmark necessarily richer?
This is really hard to say.
Denmark's GDP per capita is very high, but if you find a restaurant in Copenhagen, it costs 8 euros for a glass of plain water. If the income of the local people is converted into consumption capacity, there are not many things that can be bought. The per capita GDP of the Nordic countries has long been among the top in the world, and “exchange exchange rate” is a very important reason. The prices of several things they participate in international trade are extremely low, and the exchange rate is greatly overvalued, so the political performance report looks good.
In addition to the exchange rate manipulation between countries, there is also the manipulation of the price system within the economy. For example, in the United States, you can survive for only one or two thousand dollars a month. You can even not work and can afford to raise a few children, because the US government subsidizes a lot of basic material life. Approximately 45 million people in the United States, or nearly 14% of the population, are receiving free food stamps, and a large part of them live on this, provided that you can tolerate public hospitals, public schools and public housing-by the United States Don't expect the quality of the services provided by the government.
In the United States, as long as the quality of consumption is slightly higher, the price suddenly doubles, and the consumption of US$100 to US$200 is very common. For example, if you want to live a relatively decent life in the San Francisco Bay Area, you must have an annual salary of at least $120,000. This is a life you can only live after hard work.
The U.S. government’s strategy is very clear. Among the three types of products A, B, and C, category C "basic food and clothing" products can be heavily subsidized. Whether it is bread, milk or butter, C=0.3. If the people at the bottom want to maintain a standard of living of US$80,000, except for the subsidy, they only need to pay US$25,000, and your US$120,000 actually costs US$120,000. The US subsidies for low-end products have caused the middle class to have the illusion that their annual salary is quite high and they have already lived a decent life. In fact, they have just reached the level of food and clothing
