Concerning GNP/GDP

[LiNeNoiSe]

One missing element is how much robots contribute to the economy, and whether you can tax them directly, since they can't be got at through consumption nor income taxation.

I'm sure their owners pay property tax like the owners of other "fixed assets."

Governments would probably also hit them with a forty percent "value-added" tax.

 

[tjoneslo]

And while we are at it, does anyone have a workable idea to replace what we have now?

I have a couple.

Do you accept the idea that World Technology Level is the primary measure of economic wealth?

From that idea, you have a median per capita income based upon TL, with modifiers based on other factors. Even if the values are not the same as in Striker, or GT:FT. Then multiply the median per capita income value by the population to get the GWP.

If not, we probably want to start with something like the Economic extension in the current T5 rules: Resources, Labor, Infrastructure, Efficiency. There may need to be some other modifiers, as above. This would produce a GWP as a final value. I wouldn't simply multiply the values together as you do with the RU calculation. The Labor value is a power of 10 value, and I rather expect Infrastructure to be one too.

 

[Condottiere]

You would need to know the actual industrial base that a regime controls.

That could include extensive asteroid belt mining and manufacturing nodes, being off planet.

 

[kilemall]

You would need to know the actual industrial base that a regime controls.

That could include extensive asteroid belt mining and manufacturing nodes, being off planet.

I always presumed that interplanetary resource measurement was a function of starport level.