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Any person with half a brain can see that this mistake was not made. Besides, if it were, that would mean the US would have the worlds worst GDP - uhhh hello?
Are you just screwing with us Chock because I wrote that someone would try to say something different? Ha ha. Very funny.
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I didn't say that
was the case with the map's figures, I was merely pointing out that figures don't always equate to an accurate comparison, my example being merely one to illustrate an occasion where this
can occur, not necessarily where it
does. So it was not to intimate that the figures were incorrect, merely that there is a lot to consider. But, if you like I'll tell you one where the comparison genuinely does fall down:
An example where this does occur would be to consider viable
export market profits in the figures. For the hard of thinking, I'll translate that: If Wyoming makes X amount of money, and Colorado makes Y amount of money, then Wyoming and Colorado's combined profits would indeed equate to X+Y added to the USA's total profits, however, because they will be selling stuff and buying stuff from one another, the figures are not representative of how much that state makes as a viable comparison to the international market, because they are making money internally from other US States as well as externally, via exports, this being the figure that matters if you want to compare what a State makes to what a country makes. So if Germany makes X, and France makes Y, then X and Y
are representative of their gross profits on the international stage, because the figures represent what is coming into the entire country, and any internal sales are not part of that balance sheet. To assume otherwise is to assume that what Wales makes off England can be added to the total profits of the UK, and if that were the case, then we could just sell each other stuff all day and become the world profit leaders.
In other words, you have to subtract domestic spending from the equation to get the correct comparison if you compare internal markets to international ones, overall, the total profits each state makes added together do equal what the US makes, but the comparison per State to a country's total profits is flawed.
It is however, a fun comparison, and semantics aside, it doesn't alter the fact that the US as a whole is still blowing many countries out of the water as far as profits go.
Chock