Michael Green: What the Social Progress Index can reveal about your country

The term Gross Domestic Product is often talked about as if it were “handed down from god on tablets of stone.” But this concept was invented by an economist in the 1920s. We need a more effective measurement tool to match 21st century needs, says Michael Green: the Social Progress Index. With charm and wit, he shows how this tool measures societies across the three dimensions that actually matter. And reveals the dramatic reordering of nations that occurs when you use it.
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[@joshuaganyaupfu5849]

Well explained , lol enjoyed from Zimbabwe

[@fdjw88]

"we didn't do particularly well, but we beat the French!" that was the best part, lol.

[@abluelifewitherinedwards]

Great work!

[@kajahussain3365]

The most hopeful video I have seen! :)

[@adrianofacioli]

já até fiz um video sobre o trabalho desses caras. é fabuloso. no topo dos brics estava o brasil em 2014. costa rica é uma superpotencia do SPI.

[@TheMudkip12345]

I live in New Zealand and I'm very sceptical of it being at the top of the Social Progress Index.

[@interestingyoutubechannel1]

why are you skeptical of NZ being at the top? i'm interested. also, by the way, i've read in 2 different sources that your country is also at the very top for the least corrupt country in the world.

[@TheMudkip12345]

oc00011 27% of children live in poverty for starters. Privacy rights have been thrown out the window in the last couple of years as the government gives spy agencies more and more power, our environment is being destroyed by overseas corporations day by day (not to mention various politicians such as the Deputy Prime Minister deny climate change) and that's just what's come off the top of my head. We are a corrupt country too. There's little to no transparency in the government. Take the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement they're trying to sign New Zealand up too. They won't tell us what's in it but they're going to go ahead with it anyway.

[@Jack7967]

Please elaborate. I heard in another video that you guys (if we are to trust that you are actually from there) are also the happiest nation of the planet.

[@TheMudkip12345]

Jack I am from New Zealand (really not sure why I'd lie about it) and if we are the happiest nation on the planet, I'd hate to see what the other nations are like.

[@Jack7967]

TheMudkip12345 Hmm I can see your misgivings from your other response. Perhaps the happy ones in your country care less about politics?

[@graemeab7634]

What a wonderful thought...

[@GamingNormaly]

very nice video!

[@drshahin9136]

Thank you.big like👌

[@treehugger3615]

The "Social Progress" models can only work in homogeneous societies, where everyone is similar and have similar mentalities. This will not work in a multicultural society like the US, the only thing keeping this crowd together is their common goal of making money.

[@joaorafaelantunes2948]

I am really impressed that Brazil stands out in this Social Progress Index because we advanced against social inequality. However, 80% or more of GDP are on the millionaries and billionaires of the country... So, we do need to keep on track with more social programs that are not well accepted by most of 'rich people'.

[@keithcheokkeyang]

Replace the Opportunity factor with GDP, economic development is still a vital indicator for a nation's health. Much work is needed to transform these factors into numerical values, but still a good idea, addresses many issues we face today.

[@georgecataloni4720]

I'm quite sure that the line flattens out due to government corruption. The richer a country is, the more money government takes, then corruption causes less to be spent on actual social progress.

[@Frost517]

Actually what you are seeing is the law of diminishing returns. It's a real mathematical and economic principle. What you said is in part true given the United States is basically a shadow government run by the three Bs: billionaires, banks, and businesses. However, that is not the reason for the line flattening out.

[@19397a]

Proud to be Costa Rican!

[@joshuaganyaupfu5849]

Can we be friends , from Zimbabwe hahaha

[@ThatSlayn3]

Facinating

[@mhtinla]

Think out side the GDP box. I love it. Great idea and noble effort, although I'm interested in knowing how these non-quantitative attributes are calculated.

[@TheMrbiggs]

That’s what I thought. Especially nowadays. What qualifies as a “right?” What qualifies as “happiness?”

[@natannyvieira5709]

alguém pode cita pontos negativos e positivos de uma região com alto índice de capital social ?

[@SonnyJacobLee]

I wonder what metrics were used in measuring the Social progress. Everything must be tied up and collected properly. I wonder how everything was done.

[@BurkeLCH]

Worth spreading

[@adamthornton7880]

Ugh. This whole "GDP (PPP per capita) isn't everything" message is something I've heard many times, but what I don't recall seeing is anybody claiming that it is everything. All I've ever heard is people talking about GDP (PPP per capita) as one indicator of socioeconomic development, just like the life expectancy at birth, or the under 5 mortality rate, or the adult literacy rate, or the unemployment rate, or the homicide rate or countless others, and saying (implicitly) that (ceteris paribus) more is better which, as far as I can see, is correct. It is also worth noting that the concept of a composite quality of life index including noneconomic components is not original; it was the concept behind the extremely well known Human Development Index (invented in 1990), and many less well known alternative approaches. I think most people implicitly know that composite statistics can be useful for getting a general overview of the level of socioeconomic development in a time and place, but that individual indicators, like those mentioned above, serve a useful role in giving a clear picture of the way one measurable aspect of societal wellbeing varies between time and place, for instance, if you are discussing the economic competence if a particular government, GDP PPP per capita or unemployment rate records will be a lot more helpful than SPI or HDI records. If you are discussing approaches to policing, you want records of the rates of different kinds of crime, you don't want it mixed in with a bunch of health or education data.

[@villebre1]

Micheal, u da real mvp!

[@TheJamesRedwood]

In NZ, despite the high rating, we still have "third world" diseases common in our lower socio-economic areas - rheumatic fever, impetigo etc - these are issues of basic nutrition. Our biggest social issues are child poverty (relative to our cost of living), child suicide, child abuse, declining educational standards (I am a secondary school teacher). Our environmental record is much exaggerated with over 70% or our fresh waterways unsafe to swim in. This last issue is another example of the focus on GDP, especially through primary industries such as dairy - which we are a world leader in producing - destroying the environment our businesses and lifestyles depend on. What the Social Progress Indicator does not include, and this seems to be a grave error given that it is in part a reaction to the GFC, is a measure of socio-economic wealth disparity. Despite our (I assume) reasonably good scores in tolerance, access to education, personal rights and freedoms, like most countries we seem to have a widening gap between the rich and the poor. This is the main cause of the problems I listed above - simply, we have a large part of the population, over 20%, living in what we call poverty, and genuinely suffering. I am not saying we have people living in conditions like Sub-Saharan Africa, but given that we score the highest in SPI we should not have diseases like rheumatic fever present at all. Unfortunately, a big reason for this is institutional and systemic racism. I will stand and defend our bicultural record as better than any other colonial nation. We have had a government tribunal in place since 1975, hearing claims against the historic government regarding violations of our founding treaty with the first people to settle here - the Maori - and has paid out billions in land and cash to various tribal claimants. Some tribes (iwi) are now among our biggest corporate entities and are advancing the lives of their members significantly. However, this has not been sufficient to change the fact that Maori, and our large population of Polynesian migrants, sit at the bottom of every social statistic, especially in health and education. Our colonial past, as it did in USA, Africa and every other colonial nation, destroyed the heart and soul of an entire culture, and they have not recovered yet.

[@rameshacharya6941]

GDP is not ultimate indicator of social progress, the ultimate indicator is HDI. In spite of that, it is a measure to indicate overall progress of a country.

[@michaelmcmedia]

What the steep curve of the poor countries illustrates is the whole point of increased production to begin with - the foundation for an increasing standard of living is producing more than you consume (although you can temporarily achieve this by going into debt). What he won't mention though (and I'm 2/3 through) is that the point of increasing output in post-industrial societies is not a need for even more production, but increasing public debt and runaway compound interest. As a corporation has shareholders, a state has bondholders, and therefore the corporation and country alike are under pressure to increase their profits. The modern state and bond market is a well refined tax farm. This is what drives the constant call for increased 'growth'. In the 19th and early 20th century, growth meant that your money gained value because it was part of a limited money supply bidding for an ever increasing pool of goods in the marketplace. It meant that less of your hours worked per day went towards merely sustaining life as it had before the mechanisation of agriculture. It meant you could now send your children to school instead the farm or coal mine without starving. It meant rising living standards because your house that didn't have indoor plumbing now does. Now in the 21st century 'growth' means taking on another job because the value of your money is being printed away because the state is under pressure from the bond markets to demand more of your income and give you less in return. Once this hits breaking point all sorts of monetary and fiscal solutions will be proposed, but I have a foolproof one anybody can understand - outlaw public borrowing. If you cannot borrow against the collateral of your children's future labor, neither should politicians be able to.

[@milenumilena]

Simply, this SPI is combining many measurements in one. GDP is used to measure economy. We have other measurements such as HDI ...etc.

[@gowtham5168]

very good thought...but i thought he would explain what is GDP.. STILL A GOOD ONE

[@rchuso]

We're #1

[@PhanhaianhMr]

i think the social progress index was inferred from HDI, can't find any discrepancies between them

[@farialfigar]

Isn't this the same as the HDI? (Human Developement Index).

[@roidroid]

Farid Alejandro Figueroa Garcia exactly. Yet he says his new index is new? wtf, no it isn't.

[@iPsilocybin]

+Farid Alejandro Figueroa Garcia The HDI doesn't take into account personal rights... How can one say Saudi Arabia has a high human development index if their women live like prisoners?

[@z0rdic99]

Quality out weights quantity!

[@LeonidasGGG]

SuperTalk :)

[@nadiagonzalez7852]

Me parece muy importante que nos presente la obra de Simón kuznets porque este es un informe que entregó acerca de la base del pib el pib significa el índice del progreso social y éste tiene tres dimensiones como primer punto tenemos la pregunta cubre las necesidades básicas como segundo punto hay un acceso a la educación y por último existen las mismas oportunidades y libertades además nos marca los indicadores de logros y el país con mayor progreso social es Nueva Zelanda y chat con el menor progreso social con el bip no hay destino para avanzar hacia un progreso social más o menos de nuestro país es el replantear el debate del desarrollo e incluir la inversión por qué el pib es una herramienta de medición por el desarrollo de cada país por lo tanto no sólo las autoridades deben de crear este nuevo replanteamiento todos en conjunto en un trabajo colaborativo se debe de crear el progreso social por qué es muy importante para nosotros como país para los demás porque las cosas eran más baratas porque tendremos otra perspectiva de otros países ya mejoradas sin tantos sesgos cognitivos.

[@joselaloz]

Señora Nadia es al contrario, lo que está diciendo es que Kuznets fue el que introdujo el Producto Interno Bruto cómo forma de medir una economía, pero lo que dice es que debemos alejarnos de esta medida que no mide el bienestar, ni progreso social, él intenta desarrollar una medida alternativa sin incluir el PIB pero aún necesita ajustes en sus indicadores pero es un gran cambio, tampoco menciona a Amartya Sen y el Índice de desarrollo Humano por ejemplo

[@sitharakrishnamoorthi1351]

Cool

[@Loathomar]

I feel like there is going to be a subjective nature to this data. How do you measure if people go through discrimination? If it is just person views this is likely very subjective and the measurement tell more of the prescription of the discrimination rather then discrimination it's self. Take women, women in some African nations may have a low reporting of discrimination even lower then in the US, but does that mean there is lower discrimination? No. To measure discrimination we must look at the same actions taken by two groups of people and compare the outcomes. Ei, if a man and a woman walk down the street, what are the chances each will be attacked? Or if a man and a woman work the same job with the same education and the same productivity, is there a difference in pay.

[@serahiever]

Good concept, but I wonder how to quantify those 12 subjective factors of SPI.

[@iPsilocybin]

+serahiever They are not subjective at all. There is data about each and every one of those parameters.

[@AnimeshSharma1977]

The 3 dimension mentioned (Basic human needs, Foundations of well being, Opportunity to develop) won't they boil down to life expectancy, education, and income indices already measured by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index ?

[@reachforacreech]

gdp means very little in itself.what matters is how easy people have it.if you only work 30 hours a week and can afford alot then your doing well.simple velocity and amount of money exchanged is not enough to show this.

[@ericscholz8569]

This man has obviously never heard of the Human Development Index, because if he had I don't think he would have given this speech at all

[@milenumilena]

Felt the same. The main message I got from his presentation was GDP is not a perfect method to measure economy. What he is doing is combine economy and our well being. Which you already mentioned is human development index.

[@iPsilocybin]

+Eric Scholz HDI doesn't take into account personal rights, the environment etc. This is a way better tool.

[@ericscholz8569]

***** There's also issues with this system. So if China tomorrow had the GDP per capita of America, it would still be lower on this scale than America because mostly because of the environment regardless of of actual quality of life. Then there's also the "tolerance and inclusion" part, which that alone would cause Japan, one of the world's wealthiest countries, to tank on the scale because they're racist af.

[@iPsilocybin]

Eric Scholz It's about how well economies (i.e. GDP) apply wealth into progress. And no human being has a high quality of life if you live in a single-party state, your newspapers are controlled by the media, your gay son goes to jail, your air is so polluted you have to wear a mask outside and you extract more water from your soil than it can replenish. It all matters. Reducing it to GDP is ridiculous. Certainly Equatorial Guinea isn't a better country to live in than Uruguay or Croatia.

[@ericscholz8569]

***** When did I talk about reducing it to GDP? The HDI includes thinks like literacy and gender equality even. Would a poor environment make quality of life worse? Yes, so I suppose I have to concede that point, but would the newspaper being owned by the government change your day-to-day life in any dramatic way? And on the gay son thing, that has more to do with liberty than tolerance, at least in my eyes because it has less to do with him being gay and more to do with him acting on being gay, and at that rate Germany and other European countries would be ranked lower for the outlawing of Holocaust denial.

[@bluegas]

Has he forgoten the GINI index? I know the GINI is used on inequality mostly, but is also used to measure science, health, ecology, engineering & agriculture in countries. Putting all these in one index can be misleading.

[@SuperAtheist]

What would a Liberty Index look like? . . .

[@projectjt3149]

For that, you'd have to look at Cato

[@fominto]

Costa Rica at the same level of social progress as countries with more GDP. Which means that we make more with the little we have. And GDP is not the answer to everything. A more detail SPI should be done in every municipality.

[@Womberto]

Bhutan has been doing this for years.

[@AECSRQ]

SPI, like GDP, is another form of reductionism. Not enough is said about the problem of qualitative analysis and how the graph was calculated, so we are just to assume accuracy, objectivity, and commensurability of unknown metrics, which begs the question... Further, Mr. Green's SPI is not original, there is the UN's HDI and Bhutan's "Gross Domestic Happiness." If statistics had ever helped save the world this might be a more compelling argument.

[@ChickeLicken]

i like this video

[@konradkubiec]

In short: The problem are size and source of the data. Based on SPI methodology I'm not sure they can't be manipulated. That type of index would be great if we would ask everyone for subjective opinion and some everyday facts. SPI would get more of my trust, if they would publish level of measurement error. Or how the data would change, if we go to slums or richest provinces? Also sometimes problem is not a geographical place, but rather some kind caste system like: indian caste system, color of skin in '50 in USA or family connections.

[@konradkubiec]

***** And? There are many indices (e.g. GNP, GDP) and people who pick only some of them (to make true, full picture), make same mistake as she made.

[@diogenes848]

My major concern with this policy is that it doesn't take into consideration the tendency of people to slack off if a social safety net is there to catch them. The first American colony by Britain failed because the people that went there had this utopian idea of how they'd share everything. What actually happened is that some people worked very hard while others did nothing because they were going to share in the harvest regardless. The result was that the community nearly starved to death. They came together as a community and reestablished property rights and individual responsibility to provide for oneself. And the community went from starving to thriving. Now, I'm not saying these ideas are essential. However, we have to be careful about not changing society in ways that it ultimately destroys itself. We need a certain amount of economic productivity to survive and remain viable as a society. Productivity should be encouraged. And those that are productive must be rewarded for it or they simply won't bother. We've seen this repeatedly. One of the core failings of the USSR was that people had so little incentive to work that they really only worked hard enough to avoid getting in trouble. The old "you pretend to pay us and we'll pretend to work". Look, I want everyone to have everything they want and be happy. But we have to be realistic about how we get to those places. And if we look at societies that have little trouble feeding their people, they tend to have very strong cultural and civic work ethics. Take that away from such nations and most of them would be starving every time they hit an economic bump in the road. What is also useful about GDP is that it restrains to some extent anti productive legislation and policies because you can very clearly see a cause and effect. This bill goes into law... and productivity goes down... unemployment goes up... and then we can have a discussion about whether the good of that bill was worth the demonstrable ill.

[@roidroid]

Diogenes >this policy is that it doesn't take into consideration the tendency of people to slack off if a social safety net is there to catch them.Yes it does, GDP is part of the index.These indexes typically allow you to separate out the individual sub-indexes and plot them separately, so if GDP holds greater personal importance to you then just add it to your plot.This isn't a policy or bill, i recall no discussion of law, it's an index.

[@roidroid]

roidroid strange, youtube is removing a lot of my text formatting.

[@ileoart]

I got your point, work needs to be rewarded in a manner of competition, if you dont do you don t have. This that you are worried about, at least my country, repeatdly mentioned in the talk, Brazil this social progress came from attending the sick ones, giving opportunity to the poor ones to have acess to basic nutrition, so you can imagine the diference between starving family leader compared to a assisted one, this is long term, it cant be measured, but I can assure you that noone gets satisfied just with the basic, but with the basic met, they can go look for bigger journeys.

[@diogenes848]

Leonardo A That hasn't been my experience watching the US subsidy programs. We give welfare to various communities and they do not rise above that subsistence. We see this in at least three different communities that I can think of... they go generation to generation... hand to mouth on government subsidy. Children raised on subsidies growing to raise another generation on the same subsidies. And furthermore, the economic mobility of at least two of these communities was higher before the subsidies. Since the subsidies... the hope has gone out of their world. They live utterly dependent on the money. The unemployment is over 90 percent in some communities. Much of it isn't counted because they haven't looked for work for so long that the statistics stop recording them as a part of the labor force. My society cannot bare much more of this... it is already a major part of our national budget and the fastest growing portion of it.

[@ileoart]

Thanks for replying, dealing with subsidy programs is tough work. This brought me an doubt, did the subscription to this government assistance asks for a counterpart?, here the assisted ones have to have children, in school, bring then to medical care at least once a year to see the progress in basic nutrition, if this isn't achieved end of the assistance.

[@vidsmofit2648]

The excessive human population is the biggest problem.

[@roidroid]

VidSmoFit so you're the problem then?

[@iamprogress6862]

The severe lack of intelligence will always be the biggest problem. If we knew how in better with the earth and with each other while our population grows then we would be doing it. All these so called intelligence people are obviously not intelligent enough to drastically improve the status quo.

[@antoniohernandezblanco9940]

woot woot! costa rica. Ive been there so many times! beautiful country!

[@ZeevGreenberg]

join Bono to make "The good news on poverty" the headlines

[@5to22a]

How about we abandon government and give natural law a chance...? More Libertarianism please, TED.

[@oiinvadar]

Now THATS how you do Social Justice!

[@dummtdummy6446]

4:44

[@dummtdummy6446]

1:51

[@derekonlinenow777]

GDP is important for sure but so is Social Progress.

[@BOSOXRULE2323]

GDP is useful because it compares countries economies. I don't really see any use for social progress index unless you are trying to compare other countries human rights.

[@alsu6886]

What's wrong with comparing countries human rights (CPI) as well as the economies (GDP)? Both are useful measures.

[@khalidsafir]

The UK is high on the Social Progress Index? There's something wrong here. I live in London and I know people here live like zombies (have a look at people here on the way and back from work on the trains to see what zombies look like), as do many people in a lot of big industrialised cities. Maybe what is missing is "spirituality" - the stuff that fills your spirit, like being at one with each other, nature, discussing "truth" (not just in TED talks or TV shows but with your neighbour). Anyway, there's something missing in this index.

[@milenumilena]

You are right. People's well being can not only be measured in a materialistic way. You can find people in Africa more happy than us in the west.

[@carolinejeffery3290]

I think Spirituality would come under health and wellness, however i dont know whether the Index users would include it, since society doesnt acknowledge that spirituality is fundamental to health and wellness.

[@SulmanSaleem]

Ahhh...GDP per capita for Kuwait has never been $80k. Data at least for that country is incorrect.

[@DreamClean]

Ireland is one place above the United States. Hehe, take that!

[@bgdg323]

It's because of their Lower corporate tax rate. which spurned a boom in jobs and exports. More money in private hands mean more businesses and more charity. P.S. the us give more in foreign aid and charity than the entire EU combined. Imagine what could be done with the same tax breaks in the us with 16 trillion GDP.

[@DreamClean]

bgdg323 It's not just that. If that was the case then every country would do it.

[@paulscott6437]

ENJOY IT......for now! MUahahahaha

[@mouhaahaahaa]

imagine if everyone could go against their instincts

[@SalveSalvi]

This guy just wants an index based on his vision of a perfect society - national accounts (of which GDP is a just a by-product) - is not remotly as ideological as presented here. You just can't compare the two.

[@otakumetalero1708]

Viva Costa Rica, Pura Vida! :v

[@CognitiveImbias]

Solid data, but that's about the most mush-minded analysis I've ever heard.

[@DreamBloody]

If u love Call of Duty, Battlefield and FPS games you may be interested in México.

[@4EverDubin]

+Cesar Maza But Mexcio sucks

[@DreamBloody]

+~ShiftR0ck~ That's why i said that... was Sarcasm.... (N' u said Mx sucks...u too man)

[@4EverDubin]

Cesar Maza No, Mexico SUCKS!

[@DreamBloody]

~ShiftR0ck~ i never said it dont, i said u too. :)

[@4EverDubin]

Cesar Maza I know but Mexico sucks balls

[@domguide]

These countries are going to have a europen culture , I mean Muslim countries , in fact they must not be as europen culture and I guess that all country have to care about their environment or as as he mentioned about GDP , just not about the world would be clean without these countries .

[@haydenjames272]

Ameer

[@adriantee5219]

#YangGang #GoogleAndrewYang #Yang2020

[@madelinemccann9864]

I can't believe he didn't mention china, where did the no1 economy in the world place?

[@willtheprodigy3819]

MadelineMcCann U.S. is still the number 1 economy, China is definitely number 2.

[@madelinemccann9864]

Will V i admire the patriotism will but check your facts China is no.1 as ranked by gdp. The home of hbo, kfc, sub prime mortgages causing the 2008 credit crunch affecting all us Europeans and the only country with the cojones to push the nuclear button murdering millions and causing defomities in generations after the event thanks to inventions like agent orange, all in the name of democracy will always "definitely" be no.1 in my heart ;)

[@willtheprodigy3819]

Not sure what you're going on about but en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) China is, in fact, number 2 in terms of gdp. I am by no means a patriot, but the U.S. economy is still richer than that of China.

[@madelinemccann9864]

Will V The US were once advocates of the gold standard but unfortunately since the adoption of fiat currency and the recent over zealous action on the printing presses its actually better to look at this more modern version of gdp...Check this link out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29 but I have to point out the US economy makes a lot of money but it is certainly not "rich", do you know how many trillions of dollars in debt you are? whilst china has trillions of dollars sitting in the bank.

[@willtheprodigy3819]

I don't think purchasing power parity is an accurate representation of economic strength. China is certainly rising and may one day surpass the U.S., but as of now the U.S. is the only super power. There are just so many factors to consider it's hard to generalize which country is "stronger", but based on military might, global influence and GDP, I believe the U.S. is more powerful than China. I'm certainly open to discussion, though.

[@roidroid]

He says this "Social Development Index" is a new thing, but that's a bold-faced lie. We've already had something like this since 1990, it's called the *Human Development Index* (HDI) and the UN has been publishing the figures for years. It has it's own wikipedia page ffs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index This guy never mentions it, and indeed goes on to imply that no such thing exists. What's he playing at?

[@leonardodossantos6918]

HDI takes into account only 3 factors: life expectancy, education and income. Better than just GDP, but still very incomplete when compared to the Social Progress Index.

[@roidroid]

***** The HDI is more complex than just 3 numbers plugged into a formula, what you call "Income" for example is standardized for PPP among other things. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#Dimensions_and_calculation I can understand if his _Social Progress Index_ is better than HDI, but that's not what his talk was about - it was instead _(quite erroneously)_ about how the Social Progress Index is a world first and is going to change the GDP dominated world. But no, by including health, education and PPP the HDI has already done that - YEARS AGO! In the whole talk he never mentioned HDI, he's knowingly lying to the audience for his own benefit. It's like Apple trying to re-write history to say that the iPod was the world's first portable mp3 player (nope).

[@alsu6886]

***** This is a great comparison! Thank you!

[@iPsilocybin]

+roidroid He did say there were other alternatives to GDP before this one. You should rewatch it.

[@alexanderparker8717]

Sup

[@makdavian3567]

Would India rank somewhere in the negatives according to this goof ball? lol

[@tim211292]

well it might do since you seem to be under the impression you can get a negative score when the lowest option is 0. obviously indias education system is not good, but again that puts it at 0 which is as you could possibly know is not a negative number

[@Jefecitoklk]

Is a good video, but for the task is a bullshit