• Enjoyer_of_Games [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Documents reviewed by Bloomberg showed that Builder also worked with VerSe, an India-based social media startup, to falsely increase its sales numbers, regularly billing each other for similar amounts between 2021 – 2024. Sources close to the situation told Bloomberg that services weren’t actually rendered from either company for these payments

    They literally did the two economists on island raising their GDP bit michael-laugh

      • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Two economists survive a shipwreck and are stranded on a desert island. They’re barely surviving on captured seagulls. One day they come across a big pile of seagull shit.

        “I bet you $50 you won’t eat that” says the first economist.

        “No? You’ll see” says the second, who scrapes up the pile of shit and promptly eats it, winning the bet.

        A bit later they find another pile.

        “Now I bet you $50 you can’t manage to eat that shit!”

        “Watch and learn!” says the first economist, who scrapes up the shit and eats it.

        “Now that I think on it, we’re now exactly the same we were at the beginning, only we’ve eaten shit.”

        “What? Not at all. We’ve increased the GDP of the island by $100!”

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          That’s a different one riffing on the same idea. The island one is they trade a suitcase or coconut or whatever back and forth until they’ve raised the island’s GDP enough that it produces a boat for them to leave with.