GDP

As everyone known, the United States is one of the most powerful countries in the world which the PDF has proved. This PDF gives me a different view to the United States because its GDP is much higher than I thought and a country's high GDP not only shows how wealthy this country is but also shows how wealthy its people are measuring by how much workforce it spent per person.






Eighteen trillion dollars sounds unbelievable to me but it's also understandable. California did a great job on its GDP per person because compare it to France, it takes France 32 percent more to be the same as it, a state. However, compare Taxes to Canada, Taxes spent half more workforce than Canada to become the second one of the top ten state economy. New York only used 9.2 million workers which were three times smaller than South Korea's workforce and still had the same GDP. It is not hard to see that those who live in California and New York had lower GDP per person than those in Taxes which means the states and those people who live in the states are wealthier than those live in Taxes.

After the major information, the other information also proves the GDP per person in the United States is high which means America can receive other countries' fruit of labor by using fewer workers but in my opinion it can't actually evaluate the living standard of a country instead of to just make a hypothesis of it because ninety plus ninety divided by two is equal to one plus a hundred and seventy-nine divided by two. The average number can't tell what the fact is. Even though the average living standard of America might be pretty high, there are still many poor Americans. Therefore, there might not be that many high quality living standard Americans as the average shown. 

High GDP does show a country's level of creativity and productivity but if a country's profit can not match its creativity and productivity, that is still a loss of money and workforce. If a company pay a hundred dollars to make a bottle but it only coats ten dollars for customers to buy, it is a waste, and same to a country.


As a result, everything has two sides, high GDP doesn't always mean good to a country, it maybe the opposite. It's not good to only pursue GDP because it consumes sources and energy.