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By the yardstick that both the CIA and the IMF have adopted as the single best measure of national economies, China now has the largest economy in the world. (nationalinterest.org)
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[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Unnecessarily pedantic point: for-profit prisons are less common (though they exist). The companies that scalp money from the prisoners for goods and services, and the companies that "pay" them for labor are all for profit.