> I doubt any amount of benefits and socialism can solve this problem.
Most EU countries are higher up the list. Most provide better social benefits and many have socialist roots. Not sure how you form your conclusions.
Most EU countries are higher up the list. Most provide better social benefits and many have socialist roots. Not sure how you form your conclusions.
You do better, living and experiencing life in different countries, or ask people who have done so. Not dismissing data, but there are a lot of stuff not captured by a number (not to mention the issue with data and the method used).
For example, there are other articles that claim poor people in US are richer than the middle class in much of the Europe (like a lower class or poor family in US might only have one car, rather than several, comparable to the middle or upper class in EU):
https://mises.org/wire/poor-us-are-richer-middle-class-much-...
Regardless, the point in my comment remains.
Here's a wild idea: perhaps you should figure out the answers to these questions first?
The one referred to in the article.
It also mentions "American exceptionalism, a belief in American superiority over the rest of the world". I'm beginning to get the idea.
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> Most EU countries are higher up the list
How do you know you can trust that list?
When you look at both the average and the median income, even adjusting for PPP, IIRC the poorest US state is richer than the richest EU country, which says a whole lot about "the degree of poverty in EU".
Of course, Europeans don't like that so they try to tweak the rankings by doing various adjustments for happiness, or insisting on healthcare stuff (etc.) and how they have many transfer payments.
The europoors doth protest too much, methinks :)
Congrats to the smallest and richest EU country, for no longer being poorer than us!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_...
That's factually wrong, cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income
But I also learned today that my simple assumption was now wrong.
So congratulations to Luxembourg, for being part of the EU yet not as poor as the rest!