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Productivity has grown faster in Western Europe than in America (www.economist.com)

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[–] Chunk@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BluesF@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol why would you want to do that?

[–] Chunk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.