Re:America Is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most P...
by coldtea on Saturday June 22, 2019 @05:14PM
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>This assertion is completely unsupported, and as it turns out wrong
The link has nothing to do with proving the claim wrong. Not to mention the research itself is totally bogus, as it hints at at the end:
"Overall, regardless of how middle class fortunes are analyzed, the material standard of living in the U.S. is estimated to be better than in most Western European countries examined. But to the extent that governments in Western Europe are more likely to provide services to households that may not be captured in household income, such as the National Health Service in the UK, it is possible that differences in the quality of life between the U.S. and Western Europe are narrower."
Not only they are narrower, but the low wage life in the US is nothing like much lower wage life in Europe. I've been to both European countries (where I live) and poor US states (e.g. Alabama, Mississippi, South Dakota, and so on) and the former is more like third world conditions...
The link has nothing to do with proving the claim wrong. Not to mention the research itself is totally bogus, as it hints at at the end:
"Overall, regardless of how middle class fortunes are analyzed, the material standard of living in the U.S. is estimated to be better than in most Western European countries examined. But to the extent that governments in Western Europe are more likely to provide services to households that may not be captured in household income, such as the National Health Service in the UK, it is possible that differences in the quality of life between the U.S. and Western Europe are narrower."
Not only they are narrower, but the low wage life in the US is nothing like much lower wage life in Europe. I've been to both European countries (where I live) and poor US states (e.g. Alabama, Mississippi, South Dakota, and so on) and the former is more like third world conditions...