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If Great Britain were a U.S. State, it would be the poorest.
Posted on 9/9/23 at 10:13 am
Posted on 9/9/23 at 10:13 am
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Posted on 9/9/23 at 10:14 am to anc
Tate Reeves has been great for MS
Posted on 9/9/23 at 10:14 am to anc
Hard to believe.
No rescues this time for England if Russia goes aggressive
No rescues this time for England if Russia goes aggressive
Posted on 9/9/23 at 10:15 am to anc
I thought Europe was a utopia where medical care and cash flowed like milk and honey.
Posted on 9/9/23 at 10:16 am to anc
GDP isn't a real great metric.
For example, an MRI costs $3000 here, while an MRI with same instrumentation, software etc might be $100 in another country. The same output is given 30x value in one country over another by GDP metric.
There are issues with goods passing through ports contributing to GDP.
Basically, we just shuffle money around nowadays and let us masquerade as economic output.
Need to look solely at tangible shite(food, energy, manufactured goods) to assess true economic output.
For example, an MRI costs $3000 here, while an MRI with same instrumentation, software etc might be $100 in another country. The same output is given 30x value in one country over another by GDP metric.
There are issues with goods passing through ports contributing to GDP.
Basically, we just shuffle money around nowadays and let us masquerade as economic output.
Need to look solely at tangible shite(food, energy, manufactured goods) to assess true economic output.
Posted on 9/9/23 at 10:22 am to anc
I always laugh at people that say “we should be more like Europe!”.
Posted on 9/9/23 at 10:23 am to Privateer 2007
quote:Youve mixed up cost with price.
For example, an MRI costs $3000 here, while an MRI with same instrumentation, software etc might be $100 in another country.
Posted on 9/9/23 at 10:41 am to Privateer 2007
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GDP isn't a real great metric.
Dude, I spend about 5 weeks per year in Great Britain. They simply do NOT live like we do. They lead small, pinched lives in tiny hovels made of ugly brick with plastic appurtenances and plumbing run on the outside of the houses. Their showers are hardly big enough to turn around in. Their toilets don’t flush properly; their roads are so narrow they have to build toy cars to fit them.
I’d rather be a drug-addled hobo shitting on the streets of an American city then King, Queen and Jack of all of those European countries.*
* Paraphrase of the great P. J. O’Rourke
Posted on 9/9/23 at 10:43 am to anc
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Mississippi has passed Great Britain in GDP.
now do quality of life between Great britain and Mississippi....
Posted on 9/9/23 at 10:47 am to oklahogjr
Quality of life is subjective.
Posted on 9/9/23 at 10:51 am to Penrod
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They simply do NOT live like we do. They lead small, pinched lives in tiny hovels made of ugly brick with plastic appurtenances and plumbing run on the outside of the houses.
Or in awful rectangle housing projects that all look like they were built in the early 70s. The countryside/less dense areas are nice for a visit, especially Scotland, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
And damn having your tiny Barbie-size washing machine in the kitchen.
Posted on 9/9/23 at 10:54 am to Numberwang
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Quality of life is subjective.
i'm open to defining KPIs to make more of a qualitative measurement. Something along the lines of quantifying the heirachy of needs and weighting it by tier would be fair i'd think.
Posted on 9/9/23 at 10:54 am to oklahogjr
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now do quality of life between Great britain and Mississippi....
When factoring in Mississippi’s quality of life are you controlling for black democrat run shitholes like Jackson?
Posted on 9/9/23 at 10:55 am to oklahogjr
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Great britain
Pros:
Stable weather
Decent beer selection
Several Good looking women
Cons:
Can never swim outside
No fishing
No hunting
Limited shooting
Food sucks
Housing
Medical care
quote:
Mississippi
Beats England in all that except the top 3...
And Jackson's water might kill you.
Both havean Oxford, so I consider it a wash.
Posted on 9/9/23 at 11:02 am to anc
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Mississippi has passed Great Britain in GDP.
No. Not even close. Great Britain has 2-3 trillion dollars in GDP. Mississippi is a little over 100 billion. The stats below are from Statista.
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The gross domestic product of the United Kingdom in 2022 was over 2.2 trillion British pounds, an increase of approximately 86.3 billion pounds compared to the previous year when the size of the UK economy was 2.14 trillion pounds.
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In 2022, the real gross domestic product (GDP) of Mississippi was 104.54 billion U.S. dollars. This is a slight increase from the previous year, when the state's GDP stood at 104.35 billion U.S. dollars.
Posted on 9/9/23 at 11:17 am to Privateer 2007
He’s right. I know people don’t want to hear this and want to think that each US state has the economic power of a nation, but let’s use common sense.
MS -> England
FL -> Russia
Do you think if Mississippi or Florida, if they broke off and became independent nations, have the economic might to build up militaries the size of UK’s or Russia’s, just by using 5% or less of their state budgets?
MS -> England
FL -> Russia
Do you think if Mississippi or Florida, if they broke off and became independent nations, have the economic might to build up militaries the size of UK’s or Russia’s, just by using 5% or less of their state budgets?
Posted on 9/9/23 at 11:20 am to anc
Then why does most of England look amazing & our country has Detroit ,SF & LA shitholes, Chicago, Baltimore … never mind . We know why.
Give the UK 20-30 more years.
Give the UK 20-30 more years.
Posted on 9/9/23 at 11:26 am to anc
No fricking chance this is true.
Posted on 9/9/23 at 11:30 am to Figgy
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Figgy
Great Britain also has a population 20 times the size of Mississippi... OBVIOUS they're discussing per capita numbers.
Tater been putting in some good work.
Posted on 9/9/23 at 11:30 am to anc
quote:No way thats true. Britain has 20x the population of Mississippi. You think the average spending per person in MS is 20x higher than the UK to make up for the difference in population?
Mississippi has passed Great Britain in GDP.
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