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Mississippi, the poorest state in the United States, is close to surpassing Europe's largest economy Germany's GDP per capita. Euronews Business compares US states with European countries.

The poorest US state's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita is higher than that of Europe's top five economies, except for Germany. However, Mississippi competes closely with Germany, with a difference of just €1,500.

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euronews is owned by a company allied with authoritarian despot Viktor Orban, I’d stop sharing it.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The extent of wealth inequality in the United States versus Europe makes GDP per capita a useless figure, given that most of the wealth only benefits the 0.01%. After taking it out of the equation and accounting for ridiculous health care costs (the lowering of which via universal healthcare would free up substantial financial resources to fuel the growth of other sectors of the economy), even Eastern Europe could be considered prosperous in comparison to Mississippi.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

It's neat to game the numbers like that.

Now do happiness, life expectancy, and more things other than filthy lucre.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago (1 children)

GDP is a worthless measure of an economy.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

And yet somehow most people would rather live in Germany.
Amazing eh?

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

ha, mass transit across the entire country and then some, healthcare thats better than the US.. and they dont tolerate nazis..

seems like its more than worth it to live in germany than the US

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

and they dont tolerate nazis..

Points at the AfD.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Most of us don't

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

evil will always rebrand. like cockroaches with a light shining on them running around to find cover. in the united states they call them republicans.

Sure, but it means they tolerate Nazis.