Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 31, 2015Hypothesis: above a certain min living standard, per-capita creativity is constant and big populations beat smaller ones by network effects172147
Old Whig. @aClassicLiberal·Sep 1, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr how do you explain Sweden? Entrepreneurial and creative mecca despite being 9mn people? @pmarca3
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 1, 2015Replying to @aClassicLiberal@aClassicLiberal @pmarca Sounds like cherry picked metrics tbf1
Old Whig. @aClassicLiberal·Sep 1, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr Stockholm is a leading startup hubs. 3 largest exporter of music after US & UK. Used to have most patents per capita. @pmarca
Old Whig. @aClassicLiberal·Sep 1, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr "Sweden’s billionaires: They have more per capita than the United States" http://slate.com/articles/business/billion_to_one/2013/10/sweden_s_billionaires_they_have_more_per_capita_than_the_united_states.html… @pmarca