There wasn't even a direct comparison, which again makes such "stopped reading at X" even more brain dead. The quote that prompted the OP to discard the entire

There wasn't even a direct comparison, which again makes such "stopped reading at X" even more brain dead. The quote that prompted the OP to discard the entire article (lol): > A slowdown in “frontier growth” and technological progress matters a lot for the United States. But it matters less to Poland or Bangladesh – countries that are still trying to get to the frontier. That Poland is a nice place is neither here nor there. Poland and Bangladesh are both playing catch up (objectively true). Britain used to not be playing catch up. Now it is starting to have to play catch up. That's bad.