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Re:Americans Have Quit Quitting Their Jobs by ETH_start on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:41PM (#36625445)
The Nordic countries went from being the fastest growing economies in the world pre-1960s, to laggard economies with stagnate growth rates, post 1960 after they adopted social democracy.
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Re:Americans Have Quit Quitting Their Jobs by wing-_-nuts on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:25AM (#36627107)
Gdp isn't everything. Folks there seem to live an insanely high quality of life even adjusted for lower income
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Re:Americans Have Quit Quitting Their Jobs by ETH_start on Friday July 07, 2023 @07:33AM (#36630146)
Quality of life is extremely strongly correlated with per capita GDP. They already led the world in standard of living in 1967, at the end of their free-market/high-growth era.
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Re:Americans Have Quit Quitting Their Jobs by wing-_-nuts on Friday July 07, 2023 @09:33AM (#36631506)
Bud, that was over 50 years ago and they still have the reputation as one of the best places on the planet to live and raise a family. They're clearly doing something right, and if you zoom out and look at the big picture, we're clearly doing something wrong.
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