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I'll take issue with this - the poor in Nordic countries and Britain have a much stronger social safety net. So maybe a better conclusion is that in Britain they are still as poor as before, but with access to similar health care as the rich (who are slightly less rich to allow for this).
There's a documentary on Netflix about physicians setting up shop on a race track to offer treatment to the poor and indigent in Bristol, TN: https://www.newsweek.com/remote-area-medical-shows-what-amer... You wouldn't see these scenes in even the most deprived corners of Newcastle-upon-Tyne or the Rhondda Valley. The crowds the event attracts! This is what a developing country looks like.
Ahh, HN, where someone doing a good deed is an illustration of how the United States is secretly a third-world hellhole.
GDP per capita per hour worked is a better metric to use when comparing countries. Most Western European countries have fewer hours worked per worker, but when they work have the same productivity. I'm not sure about the gini coefficient, but both of the numbers given seem low. The US's was over 0.42 from what I've read in other sources.
There's a documentary on Netflix about physicians setting up shop on a race track to offer treatment to the poor and indigent in Bristol, TN: https://www.newsweek.com/remote-area-medical-shows-what-amer... You wouldn't see these scenes in even the most deprived corners of Newcastle-upon-Tyne or the Rhondda Valley. The crowds the event attracts! This is what a developing country looks like.
Ahh, HN, where someone doing a good deed is an illustration of how the United States is secretly a third-world hellhole.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Switzerland isn't in the EU and is doing fine. Switzerland poverty rate - 6.6% Germany poverty rate - 16.7% Source: https://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/compare/switzerland.germ...
I'm going to assume you're not British / European, but for the record Switzerland is in Schengen and EFTA, Britain is heading for being in neither.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland%E2%80%93European_U...
There's a documentary on Netflix about physicians setting up shop on a race track to offer treatment to the poor and indigent in Bristol, TN: https://www.newsweek.com/remote-area-medical-shows-what-amer... You wouldn't see these scenes in even the most deprived corners of Newcastle-upon-Tyne or the Rhondda Valley. The crowds the event attracts! This is what a developing country looks like.
Ahh, HN, where someone doing a good deed is an illustration of how the United States is secretly a third-world hellhole.
So given this information as well as the UN report on US and the fact that the US is in poverty like conditions [1] I think it’s safe to say everyone is broke. This post from reddit on /r/funny isn’t funny - it is the truth [2] [1] https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/9fq5e4/the_simpsons_...
Inequality is one thing, but the US is still a wealthy country.
Who is the country in this context though, does GDP mean the people are wealthier?