GDP:
Houston, Texas = ~$500B/yr
Siena, Tuscany = ~$11B/yr
Houston, Texas = ~$500B/yr
Siena, Tuscany = ~$11B/yr
Edit: From your own happiness survey link - "The U.S. GNI per capita income is actually higher than in most of the countries ahead of the U.S. in the global ranking of happiness. There are about 130 countries that showed up as less happy than the U.S. in 2013. Despite our outstanding technological and economic progress over the past half-century, we are without significant achievements in life satisfaction and the subjective happiness of our population. In contrast, uncertainties and anxieties are high, social and economic inequalities have widened considerably and social trust is in decline. There is an impression that the U.S. has not been very effective at turning its great business capacities, human resources, productivity and natural wealth to the best aim: increased happiness."
Don't give a damn about GDP.
I'm not from the US. I live in latin america where people think like you do and feel everyone is entitled to a bunch of "essential" things by the state using public money, and here I am watching Argentina from the other side of the river as it beats its poverty high score every day right after Venezuela did the same thing with the same exact steps. Just now they socialized the Internet, cable and telcos, wonder what else is going to be "essential".
> From your own happiness survey link
That is not my link. It's not even in the same comment subtree.
> Don't give a damn about GDP.
Well, pick a country around here from the ones that share your line of thought and just move. If you can get me one of them unhappy green cards on your way please let me know.
FYI, if you're a porteño from Av Rivadavia or further up north in the city, your infrastructure is just as good as, if not better, than most American cities. And I've lived in quite a few.
Really? Because it's GDP that funds all those government services and social programs.
I'm always confused when people don't give a damn about economics (i.e. during the Covid shutdown debate) when without economics you wouldn't have a functioning society.
Estonia GDP is measured in billions and yet their infant mortality rate is half than US despite their trillions of dollars of GDP
Not to mention Estonia's lower infant mortality doesn't actually disprove my comment.
I cherry picked infant mortality rate because I didn't want to pick the most embarrassing US stats, like life expectancy (lowest in the west despite the highest healthcare spending per capita) and homicide rate (4 times the Nigeria, 6 times China, 10 times Europe)
The fact that even little Estonia can handle infant mortality rate better than a superpower like USA it's kinda revealing
I'm also quite sure that if I picked China and its almost double infant mortality rate you wouldn't have though I was cherry picking
US is good at making money, but it's not a good indicator that they know how to spend them the right way
> The numbers in the U.S. are partly driven by gun deaths. From 2001 to 2010, 15-to-19-year-olds were 82 times more likely to die from gun violence in the U.S. than in other wealthy countries. Thakrar also attributes the higher U.S. child and infant mortality rates to a lack of preventative care.
Thakrar is Ashish Thakrar, medical resident at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System.
Regardless, let's get back to my original comment.
GDP is important. It's what pays for government services, you may not agree that the US does enough, but that doesn't change the fact GDP pays for it.
USA ranks 34th on 36 countries
> GDP is important. It's what pays for government services
It depends on what you buy with it and how much of it goes back to society in the form of government services for the public
For rich countries in the G20 it shouldn't matter as much as how you redistribute it
I'll repeat myself, despite the highest GDP in the World USA can't even pay for the citizens' right to not be shot in the streets
What is it good for then?
No they don't. They collect the same stats, but they aren't necessarily comparable.
The richest country in the World is 34th
I think you have a problem there, no matter how much you try to find excuses for it
> Metodology Membership in the OECD was used as a proxy for similar nations to the U.S. The group was narrowed to OECD members with 50 years of high-quality data, minus the U.S. It includes: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Yup! GDP doesn't help at all! Only Bezos.
As someone living in a third world country in a city where (cheap) public transit is the norm, I can tell you that faster than private cars/taxis it is not; hell, Uber arriving here was a nice uplift to my lifestyle at a price I could justify ponying up for.
I don't understand why you are protesting.
Romans already had interchangeable parts.
Evidence of the use of interchangeable parts can be traced back over two thousand years to Carthage in the First Punic War. Carthaginian ships had standardized, interchangeable parts that even came with assembly instructions akin to "tab A into slot B" marked on them.
> why early industry did not need rail or waterway to carry heavy logistics
you are conflating two arguments.
Ancient civilizations became large empires without railways.
Some of them built giant pyramids in the middle of the desert...
Houston: 2.3 million
Siena: 50k
What's the use of these pointless comparisons?
And not so for a city of 50K like Siena, right?
The whole thing is pointless, that's my point.
Nigeria homicide rate: 4.5 murders per 100,000 population
Siena homicide rate: < 0.5 murders per 100,000 population
It all depends on how you spend that money...
https://books.google.ca/books?id=YtwSz2A12e8C&q=153&redir_es...
But.... so what?
That they are an undeveloped society
Are you comparing US to undeveloped countries?
Do you understand that the richest country in the World has a worse homicide rate than Nigeria?
If I have to chose, i prefer living where they don't shoot me rather than where the city produces a very high GDP...
Beijing has a GDP 517.876 billion dollars.
So, according to the original post, it must be like living in Houston.
Are you sure Nigeria is as reliable as the US for those stats?
You should check out the concept of Ergodicty. In your examples the ensemble average does not = the time-series average. You're saying something like "4 out of 5 Russian Roulette players had a great time playing, so I should as well".