> > It's not just about dollars per person - the difference in size of the countries makes country-wide solutions much more challenging. The Netherlands are abo

> > It's not just about dollars per person - the difference in size of the countries makes country-wide solutions much more challenging. The Netherlands are about 16,000 square miles. The US is 3.8 million square miles. > I’m not hearing concrete evidence of a gulf that can’t be bridged by money. The land area differences provided is part of the concrete evidence: I can invest a lot of value onto a small plot of land, but it will take many times more money in order to do the same for an area the size of a small town. The costs for infrastructure skyrockets as the amount of land in need of servicing increases. 15% more money per person is relatively useless if the people are spread thousands of miles apart.