The unfortunate fact is that we have a lot higher percentage of poor people. If you were to redo the ranking with only the top 80% of Americans we’d be first.
Productivity has grown faster in Western Europe than in America
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Chunk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
BluesF@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Lol why would you want to do that?
Chunk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well, I didn’t say I wanted it and I didn’t say it was good. I just provided another statistic about how stratified and pay to play our economy is.
It’s actually fucked. It’s not good. I don’t like it.
Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
In other words: the US is working overtime and spending it’s surplus money on drinks.