If a country wanted to increase their GDB tenfold, could it just increase salaries by ten, force companies to pay ten times more and spend 10 times more in every field as well ? So that everything is increased proportionally, thus making the GDP grow.

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If a country wanted to increase their GDB tenfold, could it just increase salaries by ten, force companies to pay ten times more and spend 10 times more in every field as well ? So that everything is increased proportionally, thus making the GDP grow.

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as the top comment explained. Nominal GDP will increase. Real GDP will not because the workers aren’t being 10× productive.