holy cow america is mighty
This is the saddest part, America is mighty but that doesn't translate into the life quality of its citizens at all.
I disagree. It does, just not at the rate that it could.
Map: US States Renamed as Countries with Similar GDPs
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#12Why not do it by gdp pr capita?
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#13holy cow america is mighty
This is the saddest part, America is mighty but that doesn't translate into the life quality of its citizens at all.
How do you figure? I've been to both Iraq and Oklahoma, and I can tell you the quality of life in Oklahoma is a hell of a lot better than Iraq, pre- or post-war, in spite of their similar GDPs.
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#14From the original article and chart (not the current linked site):
> "California has a labor force of 19.3 million compared to the labor force in the UK of 33.8 million (World Bank data here). Amazingly, it required a labor force 75% larger (and 14.5 million more people) in the UK to produce the same economic output last year as California! ... Further, California as a separate country would have been the 5th largest economy in the world last year, ahead of the UK ($2.62 trillion), India ($2.61 trillion) and France ($2.58 trillion)."
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#15I had no idea the disparity between the US and Russian economies was so huge!
I didn't see Russia on the map, where did you find it?
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#16Why not do it by gdp pr capita?
Totals are interesting. It tells you about things like the US’s power in international trade, reminds is how big the US market is, why people focus on it, etc.
It doesn’t mean GDP per capita isn’t interesting either, but they’re different lenses used to view different things.
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#17Why not do it by gdp pr capita?
Nominal is better if you want to compare the economic might of countries, which is what this is presumably doing.
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#19Related to this, I've recently been mulling a similar comparison:
New Jersey is approximately the same area and population as Israel.
The joke in the anecdote is that the two regions' neighbors have similar attitudes about them.
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#20It would be cool to expand this by comparing those states to their respective countries in land area and population as well.