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People in Germany and France buy about as much cheap junk and have about as much attachment to material belongings. Which I don't blame them for, but it's remar
by hunson_abadeer 3y ago
People in Germany and France buy about as much cheap junk and have about as much attachment to material belongings. Which I don't blame them for, but it's remarkable that in both countries, it's fashionable to pooh-pooh the "dumb Americans" for that.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoPer capita consumer spending, Germany 2021: $21,704 Per capita consumer spending, USA 2021: $47915
- anArbitraryOne 3y agoIt would be interesting to see the median values of such w/COLA
- Turing_Machine 3y agoPer capita GDP, Germany 2023: $51,383 Per capita GDP, United States 2023: $80,034 If Germany were a US state, it would rank somewhere between Mississippi and West Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ... (slight edit for formatting)
- nonethewiser 3y ago[flagged]
- benhurmarcel 3y agoMaybe if what you’re measuring leads to believe that Germany is equivalent to Mississippi, you’re measuring the wrong thing.
- Turing_Machine 3y ago[flagged]
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago"When your data doesn't align with the anecdotes, suspect the data" - paraphrase of one of the world's richest people, possibly being correct for once.
- Turing_Machine 3y agoIn 2022, 184,753 German citizens returned to Germany, while 268,167 left. Departures have outnumbered arrivals every year since 2005. Source: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Population/Migration/Tables/migration-german.html https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Popula...
- orf 3y agoHave you ever been to France or Germany? That’s obviously and clearly very not true.