Re:So You're an American?
by hunson_abadeer on Friday September 01, 2023 @08:24PM
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People in Germany and France buy about as much cheap junk and have about as much attachment to material belongings. Which I don't blame them for, but it's remarkable that in both countries, it's fashionable to pooh-pooh the "dumb Americans" for that.
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Re:So You're an American?
by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday September 01, 2023 @08:45PM
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Per capita consumer spending, Germany 2021: $21,704
Per capita consumer spending, USA 2021: $47915
Re:So You're an American?
by anArbitraryOne on Friday September 01, 2023 @09:06PM
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It would be interesting to see the median values of such w/COLA
Re:So You're an American?
by Turing_Machine on Friday September 01, 2023 @09:33PM
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Per capita GDP, Germany 2023: $51,383
Per capita GDP, United States 2023: $80,034
If Germany were a US state, it would rank somewhere between Mississippi and West Virginia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
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Re:So You're an American?
by benhurmarcel on Saturday September 02, 2023 @07:24AM
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Maybe if what you’re measuring leads to believe that Germany is equivalent to Mississippi, you’re measuring the wrong thing.
Re:So You're an American?
by Turing_Machine on Saturday September 02, 2023 @09:26AM
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Or maybe it isn't.
Re:So You're an American?
by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday September 02, 2023 @11:34AM
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"When your data doesn't align with the anecdotes, suspect the data" - paraphrase of one of the world's richest people, possibly being correct for once.
Re:So You're an American?
by Turing_Machine on Sunday September 03, 2023 @10:01AM
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In 2022, 184,753 German citizens returned to Germany, while 268,167 left.
Departures have outnumbered arrivals every year since 2005.
Source: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Popula...