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Ok, if you make that point please point me towards data on how the EU is actually better as a society or way to run countries. How much innovation comes out of
by zpeti 5y ago
Ok, if you make that point please point me towards data on how the EU is actually better as a society or way to run countries.
How much innovation comes out of the eu? How many unicorns have they produced vs the rest of the world? How are the economies of European countries looking in terms of growth vs the rest of the world? How is the percent of global gdp for the eu looking over the last few years?
- fxtentacle 5y agoMuch less homelessness, for starters. Also, not every useful innovation can be measured in unicorn dollars ;) Facebook has a massive market cap, yet it arguably just makes everyone less happy.
- zpeti 5y agoTry again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_... The US is no outlier, in fact it has a lower homeless rate than Germany and Sweden.
- fxtentacle 5y agoBecause Germany counts people with a government-provided home as homeless, too, while the US does not.
- Bud 5y agoYou could start by looking at average life expectancy, income inequality, education, literacy rate (the US is shockingly bad here), and health care access. As for "innovation" and "unicorns", the US has done well, but a lot of the best examples have been European immigrants to the US. When the chips were really down, in the Manhattan Project, who did the US rely on? Overwhelmingly it was Europeans who emigrated to the US: Albert Einstein, Hans Bethe, John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, James Franck, Edward Teller, Rudolf Peierls, and Klaus Fuchs. The US would not exist if they hadn't. So let's not get too cocky.