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You have to be careful with GDP because for some countries that money goes offshore.

Ireland is a tax haven for corporations. Google sells their IP to Google Ireland, then charges for it across a swath of markets. Then the money flows back to Ireland as GDP.

But it doesn’t stay there, it flows back to Google USA.



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