Re:Why Don't Americans Understand How Poor Their Lives Are?
by ekianjo on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:58AM
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> The other thing is that Europe may have 500 million people, most of them speak a different language/culture
That's far from sufficient to have a strong economy. Actually the strongest economies in the world (take GNI for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GNI_(nomi...) right now have small populations: Switzerland, Norway, Macau, Luxembourg, Iceland, Singapore... and the US. Most other developed countries in Western Europe rate relatively quite low.
That's far from sufficient to have a strong economy. Actually the strongest economies in the world (take GNI for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GNI_(nomi...) right now have small populations: Switzerland, Norway, Macau, Luxembourg, Iceland, Singapore... and the US. Most other developed countries in Western Europe rate relatively quite low.