alt Hacker News> Even the EU is a lot of different countries. Some of them quite poor, and some of them wealthier also with high GDP per capita.
All poorer than Mississippi per-capita
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Macha • today at 1:16 AM
And yet I expect the QOL for the median French person to be higher than the median Mississipian.
Nonsense.
Mississippi: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPCPI
Belgium: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
And that is not counting the substantial safety net that your average European has. I would MUCH rather live in Belgium than Mississippi, and I say this as an American.