> If you have a car crash and pay medical bills that raises the GDP by the amount of spend but is not a good thing. I mean, in an alternate reality where car c

> If you have a car crash and pay medical bills that raises the GDP by the amount of spend but is not a good thing. I mean, in an alternate reality where car crashes still happen but the person dies because of the lack of medical care, then it is a bad thing. That we invented medical procedures to deal with car crash victims is a valuable offering to the society and GDP is a crude way to capture such value.