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A comment on the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X. Parent comment

Re:the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the... by bjornasm on Monday July 17, 2023 @10:15PM (#36766976)
What a weird way of framing it. The USA is compared with EU, so it doesn't matter if USA is more diverse than single european countries. As you point out, EU is also very diverse.
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Re:the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the... by EGreg on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:47PM (#36767578)
But EU is more diverse than any single US state!

So like... nyeh

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Re:the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the... by ajross on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:50AM (#36767917)
Surely the point was that the difference between internal regions of the EU and USA are much higher than that between the averages. Someone worried about lifespan in either would do much better to look at local outcomes and the reasons for them (c.f. figuring out why Latvia lags the France, or what's wrong in Alabama that Massachusetts is so far ahead) than it is to dither over what the people across the ocean are doing.
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Re:the US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the... by ffhhttt on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @03:57AM (#36769228)
these oversimplified averages don’t really reflect anyone’s actual situation either
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