This doesn't seem right. forbes.com/sites/timworst
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. Please use median income PPP when comparing countries. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_ho Makes more sense than per capita GDP.
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Yes, but GDP per capita tells you nothing about the earnings of the regular bloke. Need to look at median income.
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The US has a very high GDP because Google, Microsoft, Wall Street, and so on. This does little for Walmart employees.
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The US is clearly a very rich country... but the median Canadian is roughly as rich as the median American. UK is definitively poorer.

