2025-04-23
All macroeconomic and financial metrics should be expressed as per capita IMO, by dividing by either national population or global population. This includes market caps of publicly listed companies, national debts, national GDPs, and international debt markets. This makes it a lot easier for the common person to understand. I anyway implicitly end up doing the conversions every time.
For example if twitter market cap is $40 billion, instead say $5 per capita or $117 per capita national. If Indian budget deficit is $180 billion, instead say $22.50 per capita or $128 per capita national.
People working in technical fields often invent more jargon than necessary to justify their own legitimacy and this is yet another small example of it I think.