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To remind you, it's a post about working in another country, the GDP makes even less sense in this context if you don't put it per capita.

by boudin 7y ago

fastball 7y ago
You were presumably responding to "America is the most rich and powerful country in the world", since that is the only relevant portion of the comment you replied to where interjecting a comment about GDP would make any sense at all. The US, as a nation, has the highest GDP, and therefore is the wealthiest nation in the world. The individual wealth of Americans is lower than some other countries (but not many), but that is hardly relevant in a discussion about the wealthiest country. If OC had said "Americans are the richest people in the world", you would be right. But OC did not, and being deliberately obtuse does not change that.
- boudin 7y ago
  I'm gonna stop answering because you're being misleading on purpose, but you can't say the USA is the richest because people in other countries are laid back worker when the GDP per capita is lower than the other mentionned country. It means that there's just more people but that they are quite "less productive" (i personnaly think that's it's a stupid way to judge people productivity though, i just responded to this comment because the author belief was wrong)
  - fastball 7y ago
    I'm being deliberately misleading? Have you ever looked in a mirror? This conversation started because YOU referred to GDP PPP as just "GDP". There is a reason that "List of Countries by GDP (nominal)" and "List of Countries by GDP (PPP) per capita" are separate articles on Wikipedia. Hint: it's because the two metrics are different, and conflating them is misleading, whether deliberate or not. You arbitrarily deciding that the only way to measure the wealth of a nation is with GDP per capita doesn't mean you can call anyone who doesn't use that same metric (and instead uses a more common one) wrong. Again, we are talking about the wealth of a nation as a whole. Not the wealth of individual Americans.
  - dang 7y ago
    > you're being misleading on purpose I realize you were provoked, but please don't break the site guidelines even when another account is doing so. That's the only way to prevent a downward spiral. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

To remind you, it's a post about working in another country, the GDP makes even less sense in this context if you don't put it per capita.

by boudin 7y ago

To remind you, it's a post about working in another country, the GDP makes even less sense in this context if you don't put it per capita.

fastball 7y ago

You were presumably responding to "America is the most rich and powerful country in the world", since that is the only relevant portion of the comment you replied to where interjecting a comment about GDP would make any sense at all. The US, as a nation, has the highest GDP, and therefore is the wealthiest nation in the world. The individual wealth of Americans is lower than some other countries (but not many), but that is hardly relevant in a discussion about the wealthiest country. If OC had said "Americans are the richest people in the world", you would be right. But OC did not, and being deliberately obtuse does not change that.

boudin 7y ago
I'm gonna stop answering because you're being misleading on purpose, but you can't say the USA is the richest because people in other countries are laid back worker when the GDP per capita is lower than the other mentionned country. It means that there's just more people but that they are quite "less productive" (i personnaly think that's it's a stupid way to judge people productivity though, i just responded to this comment because the author belief was wrong)
- fastball 7y ago
  I'm being deliberately misleading? Have you ever looked in a mirror? This conversation started because YOU referred to GDP PPP as just "GDP". There is a reason that "List of Countries by GDP (nominal)" and "List of Countries by GDP (PPP) per capita" are separate articles on Wikipedia. Hint: it's because the two metrics are different, and conflating them is misleading, whether deliberate or not. You arbitrarily deciding that the only way to measure the wealth of a nation is with GDP per capita doesn't mean you can call anyone who doesn't use that same metric (and instead uses a more common one) wrong. Again, we are talking about the wealth of a nation as a whole. Not the wealth of individual Americans.
- dang 7y ago
  > you're being misleading on purpose I realize you were provoked, but please don't break the site guidelines even when another account is doing so. That's the only way to prevent a downward spiral. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html