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Re:A Victoria man has gone two decades without money by gruez on Monday July 26, 2021 @07:17PM (#27966688)
>One might wonder if our society is all about motivating people to do things they don't want. How many of our modern conveniences could theoretically be traded away in return for a 15 hour work week?

Easy, look at US's GDP ($68k) and compare it against a country that's proportionately lower (to 15 hours). That gets you around $25k, around the GDP of Bulgaria and Chile.

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Re:A Victoria man has gone two decades without money by mikem170 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @05:29PM (#27977899)
That's a neat way to compare! I've spend a couple of months in countries in that 25k GDP range. I could tell the difference in some ways, but there's so much more I don't know.

However, that gave me the idea to see what that same math was like using historical U.S. inflation adjusted per-capita GDP numbers [0].

That $25k number is what U.S. per-capita GDP was in 1991/1992.

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/gdp-...

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