Re:The Data Show That Socialism Works (2019)
by Fnoord on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @07:07AM
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When you zoom in like that it also isn't accurate. For example, isn't it kind of weird to compare District of Columbia with an other country when businesses in District of Columbia are generally, like the rest in USA, incorporated in Delaware for tax reasons?
Step 2: I am right.
When aggregating at the country level, data skews massively. China and the US are more like the EU than Norway or England.
Compare China (1,300 million) and Norway (5.5 million), or the US (350 million) and Singapore (5.6) and the data gets weird. Compare Connecticut (3.5) and Norway, Liechtenstein (0.038 mil) and The District of Columbia (0.6 mil), Beijing (25) and Australia (25), Guangxi (48) and Uganda (45), and the comparison is more reasonable.
NB The District of Columbia has the highest GDP PPP Per capita in the world - higher than tiny, I-can't-believe-its-not-money-laundering Liechtenstein and with ~20 times the population.