A friend just moved back to the us from Denmark and can't shut up about how much better it is for business in the US.
Jante Law. "Who are you to start your own company? Do you think you're better than an employee?"
Re:America's Dwindling Economic Freedom
by Gigablah on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @05:37AM
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> You're really going to compare those postage stam...sorry, countries
I don't get it.
Re:America's Dwindling Economic Freedom
by Patient0 on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @06:05AM
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he means that the countries are so small (in area) - the size is comparable to a postage stamp (i.e. hyperbole)
Re:America's Dwindling Economic Freedom
by vmsmith on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @06:12AM
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It's not just that they're small in size. They're small in almost everything.
Take regulation, one of the things that's considered a measurement. Yeah, the U.S. has lots of regulations about, say, oil and gas and coal extraction. Do either Hong Kong or Singapore even have to think about oil, gas, and coal extraction? The U.S. has farms and ranches that are bigger than a few of those countries. Do those countries need to think about food regulation the way the U.S. does? That sort of thing.
For the most part they're not even in the same universe economically.
And yes, it was a bit of deliberate hyperbole.
First, there's Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland, Mauritius -- Mauritius...?!?!? -- Ireland, Denmark, and Estonia.
Really? You're really going to compare those postage stam...sorry, countries, and their so-called economic freedom to the U.S.? Really?
Australia, Canada, Chile, and New Zealand...OK, I can perhaps buy that. Particularly Australia and Canada.
Now look at the countries below the U.S. Included are:
Taiwan, Germany, South Korea, Israel...all doing quite nicely on the capitalist front.
Not to mention Norway, Sweden, Finland, and several other countries with arguably higher standards of living and qualities of life than the U.S.
A silly list purporting to demonstrate an even sillier implication.