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I'm not sure that's the whole picture. For instance, in many European cities, I can get a better quality product for $5 at a corner shop than I can for $35 at
by douche 10y ago
I'm not sure that's the whole picture. For instance, in many European cities, I can get a better quality product for $5 at a corner shop than I can for $35 at some artisanal hipster place here in the States. It's one of the things I love about visiting Berlin; I've never eaten simultaneously so well and so cheaply.
- clock_tower 10y agoTo think that people yell at me when I say that the US's higher-than-Europe GDP doesn't mean that the US has a higher quality of life...
- jessaustin 10y agoHaha yelling is a sign of confusion...
- clock_tower 10y agoGood point! People -- including people who should really know better, like government economists -- have been sold GDP as the economy's high score. (Think of Il Sorpasso, when Italy's GDP first passed England's.) It was never intended as more than a best guess, and is one of the many temporary measures for WWII that are still with us today...