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Re:Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone by rayiner on Saturday December 31, 2022 @09:49PM (#34203089)
> But it's good to do it because those people in the poor states wouldn't be able to survive by themselves.

Mississippi has a higher GDP per capita than Germany or the UK. If it was in the EU it would be one of the rich countries.

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Re:Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone by throwaway2037 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @04:59AM (#34205090)
This is one of the silliest HN discussions I have ever read. Ten seconds of Googling can demonstate many of these statements are untrue.

<<Mississippi has a higher GDP per capita than Germany or the UK.>>

    Mississippi 42,411 USD
    Germany     50,802 USD
    UK          47,334 USD
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Re:Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone by loeg on Sunday January 01, 2023 @05:29AM (#34205242)
Wikipedia claims about $47k for Mississippi in 2022[1].

Figures for UK and Germany seem to vary quite a bit depending on who you ask. One site gives about $45k for 2021 UK[2] with lower projections for 2022 (maybe more about GBP:USD than anything else). The same site gives German GDP per capita[3] around $43k 2021.

I don't have a good explanation for the methodological differences that are producing such different results for the countries.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

[2]: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/gdp-per-capita

[3]: https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/gdp-per-capita

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Re:Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone by dionidium on Monday January 02, 2023 @12:47PM (#34221001)
Mississippi > Germany is an exaggeration, but how many people know that almost all U.S. states are wealthier than almost all European countries? Germany (the richest European country) would rank somewhere around 39th as a U.S. state (just below Tennessee and Missouri). In my experience this kind of banal statement of fact is treated with undue incredulity.

Source: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/us-gdp-per-capita-by-state-vs...

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