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Why do western economists call their country’s domestic product gross?
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In german, "nice" is translated to "Nett". Since Gross Domestic Product after taxes is nice income, we call it Net Domestic Income (lose a t for making it english). But since we don't like paying taxes but before it being nice we do have to pay taxes, we find that gross, and so that's why it's Gross Domestic Product. For the same reason we also call a dozen dozens a "Gross", because squaring 12 is kinda icky.