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Re:U.S. economy shrank at a 1.4% annual rate in the first qu... by sublatio on Thursday April 28, 2022 @01:21PM (#31195287)
> There are no great societal paradises where the GDP per capita is ~$500-$5,000.

Ok, not paradise, but a counterpoint I can think of might be Bhutan at around $3,200.

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Re:U.S. economy shrank at a 1.4% annual rate in the first qu... by z0ccc on Thursday April 28, 2022 @02:09PM (#31196018)
How is Bhutan a good counterpoint?
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Re:U.S. economy shrank at a 1.4% annual rate in the first qu... by twelve40 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @04:10PM (#31197609)
that's a country size of Sacramento. Even if it was a societal paradise (don't know much about that, life expectancy seems not great at 71), a sample of 700k people doesn't seem to crush the predictive power of GDP per capita.
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