tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post5762278464523540557..comments2024-03-28T11:58:42.109-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: Something To Think AboutAesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-1023785643567587872017-05-25T19:58:50.936-07:002017-05-25T19:58:50.936-07:00Pointless.
Overall, the U.S. GDP per capita (8) r...Pointless. <br />Overall, the U.S. GDP per capita (8) ranks between Iceland(7) and Denmark(9).<br />By states, DC outreaches Luxembourg(10) handily, which papers over vast swaths of ghetto-dwelling poverty; the rest of the country would fall between North Dakota (1 in US) ahead of Norway(3), down to Mississippi (50 in US) just ahead of Italy (27).<br /><br />Income isn't averaged IRL. <br />And if anyone personally makes more than $106K, they beat Luxembourg (1) regardless of the rest of the state. If you make more than $80K, you outpull Switzerland (2), and so on.<br />Somebody on a miniscule SS retirement of $12.5K/yr comes in ahead of Argentina's avg (58) and all the other 132 countries south of that.<br /><br />If we break world numbers per capita, you need $130K to beat Qatar (1 in PPP), while Mississippi's last-place per capita still beats Israel (38 in PPP).<br /><br />The bigger point is the US was founded as a nation of nation-states, and economically, we still are. The map just represents that graphically. <br /><br />It also underlines why dumbass idea for things from other countries, like socialized medicine, when attempted for a nation of 300M people and an economy of $19T are completely asinine, since they're from countries with the population of Wyoming, and the economy of South Carolina.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-46858129554056683522017-05-24T11:18:10.743-07:002017-05-24T11:18:10.743-07:00I'm too lazy to work it out, is there a per ca...I'm too lazy to work it out, is there a per capita version?<br /><br />It'll either be pointless of very interestingDomohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00240964731398145995noreply@blogger.com