>My guess is it's a quick way to compare while factoring differences in the cost of living It’s a pretty bad way of doing that. Despite having a much greater G

>My guess is it's a quick way to compare while factoring differences in the cost of living It’s a pretty bad way of doing that. Despite having a much greater GDP per capita, the US has a much lower cost of living than the major European countries. My guess is that it’s an attempt to define inequality as poverty, which smells suspiciously like a predetermined conclusion against the United States.