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Comparisons between the US and European countries are often useless. Either they pick a rich European country that has restricted immigration for a long time, o
by jeffdavis 10y ago
Comparisons between the US and European countries are often useless. Either they pick a rich European country that has restricted immigration for a long time, or they say "Western Europe" while ignoring many of the countries in Western Europe that have some real challenges (like unemployment).
Germany or the UK might be reasonable comparison points. Not perfect, of course (still huge differences), but it's much more likely that there is a real lesson somewhere.
- hedwall 10y agoSwedens is quite similar and has (until recently) had a very liberal immigraiton policy.
- jeffdavis 10y agoSweden population 9.5M, less than 3% the size of US polulation. I'm glad they are so happy with their country, but not sure if it scales 30X. And regardless of policy, I suspect the actual immigration numbers (and affluence of immigrants) is much different than the US.
- bdavisx 10y ago>they pick a rich European country Aren't we (U.S.) the richest country in the world?
- jeffdavis 10y agoUS per capita GDP US$53K Swiss per capita GDP US$84K