Is this true? Buying second hand doesn't add to gross economic output, and doesn't add anymore jobs. I only buy smartphones second hand because the market for them is so evil, with all these throwaway landfill devices. Its one of the only boycotts I can do in this smartphone dependent world.
if reported creatively enough it could boost GDP, and increase the number of "independent businesses" which can be assumed to have at least one employee (the owner/ person wearing /selling clothes)
you aren't thinking about cooking the books hard enough.
Wait. What? I hate trump. My point wasn't "hey, look how smart he is". It was "you might think this is a life hack, but its not. This was the intended outcome"
It certainly was not. The idiot just thought this would be a great way for him and his buddies to rake in money. He never imagined people might stop buying new.