Gerstner notes global GDP had almost zero increase from year zero to 1800 before growth began with Adam Smith.
“Up until the year 1800, the year '0 to 1800, there was almost zero increase, right, in human prosperity, almost zero GDP. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1780.”
Gerstner says GDP was flat for 1800 years then went parabolic after 1800.
“Eighteen hundred years, okay? Almost zero growth in GDP. And then just after the year 1800, you have this parabolic move in global GDP.”
Gerstner claims all human GDP growth occurred after America's founding and wealth of nations publication.
“So we have two thousand years, you have no GDP growth. And it all happens to magically line up with, you know, the founding of America, the wealth of nations, limited government, entrepreneurialism, etcetera.”