Idea: Limitless GDP

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I’ve seen a few ideas here about what to do to make GDP growth more interesting. I want a proposal that I see is related to a few of them and not mutually exclusive. Why Limit GDP growth at all? As long as a country’s population is growing (and productivity remains at least flat), GDP should never max out. Late game would feel a lot cooler without an upper limit to income, especially if like me you like to finance early game with a lot of debt.

@fabian2 had a proposal about more directly allowing control of aggregate supply/demand policies.

@raxo2222 suggested moving from GDP to GDP/capita and rate of GDP growth. I think both of these, if also limitless (unfortunately they proposed a limit) could be an interesting way to play out this dynamic.

Mostly I just want to see the limitless growth that Greg Mankiw promised me in my econ fundamentals textbook.

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The limit would be $300 000 GDP per capita!
Only thing that could increase GDP per capita boundlessly is technology.

We would need space colonization, practically used nanotechnology, some rudimentary transhumanism and other ultra-tech stuff.

We also could cheat this and just steal all billionaires and their assets with our ultra-pro billionaire policies.

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yes i completely agree, add limitless growth

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Cliff said before he won’t remove the cap on GDP.

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Thanks this is good info I hadn’t heard about this. I’ve been playing the games for a while but obviously this is my first post here so haven’t been in the loop. Is there a link to a place where he says that?

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Be sure to tag cliff, if you want his feedback on anything.

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Also, the Democracy series are since the 2000s!!! So, it’s definitely intentional that they added the cap on that GDP.