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Re:Map: US States Renamed as Countries with Similar GDPs by mikeash on Thursday May 31, 2018 @11:30AM (#17197042)
How comparable, exactly? If QoL in California is better in proportion to the workforce disparity then the UK isn’t any more efficient. If it goes the other way then the UK is even more efficient. Assuming they’re the same doesn’t make any sense.
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Re:Map: US States Renamed as Countries with Similar GDPs by coldtea on Thursday May 31, 2018 @01:27PM (#17198246)
If they're more or less the same, then assuming they're the same makes perfect sense.
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Re:Map: US States Renamed as Countries with Similar GDPs by mikeash on Thursday May 31, 2018 @04:12PM (#17199767)
That depends on how close “more or less the same” actually is. Within 10%? Sure. Within an order of magnitude? That would swamp the other difference.

I have no idea which way it is, but spinning lower GDP per worker as more efficient doesn’t make any sense to me.

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Re:Map: US States Renamed as Countries with Similar GDPs by coldtea on Friday June 01, 2018 @04:09AM (#17203479)
>spinning lower GDP per worker as more efficient doesn’t make any sense to me

Well, the GDP doesn't make any sense either. Busywork also increases the GDP.

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