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Re:The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest by edj on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @11:07AM (#7628095)
Would be interesting to see a quality of life comparison (if such a thing can be reliably quantified)

The Economist attempted to quantify quality-of-life and rank nations using the metrics they developed [1]. Their quality-of-life index is a bit out of date - almost 10 years old now - but interesting nonetheless.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-of-life_Index

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Re:The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World’s Richest by remon on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @12:34PM (#7628658)
That seems a questionable measurement. In their reasoning quality of life goes up if a "variable taking value 1 if country has either high rate of church attendance or trade-union membership" goes up. There is not a developed country in the world where church attendance or trade-union membership is going up. That said, interesting read.
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