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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]US is a great place to be rich, and a terrible place to be poor.
Europe is a great place to be poor, and a terrible place to be rich.

The poorest US state (Mississippi) is about to surpass the richest EU country (Germany) in GDP per capita. All other US states are ahead of every European country. Just Mississippi needs to catch up!

https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/01/03/the-poorest-us-state-rivals-germany-gdp-per-capita-in-the-us-and-europe[/quote]

Then why is wealth inequality and standard of living for most Americans so low while Denmark, Sweden etc have barely any poverty or wealthy inequality[/quote]

The standard of living is not low for most Americans.  You just may not agree on the measures... bigger homes, cars, air conditioning, more clothes, etc.  And frankly, the poor in the US receive high quality health care (72 million on Medicaid).  It is people ineligible for Medicaid (illegals), people who need home nursing care and people who chose high deductible insurance plans who may struggle to get care.  But people in Europe with any money usually choose to buy private health insurance because the waiting lists, three to five year lag for new medical procedures and drugs, etc. are not acceptable to them.

I would agree that the US has more "dysfunction" that impacts the lifestyles of the poor, but I don't ascribe those to a lack of resources provided by the government.  We have literally poured money into poor communities with little to no improvement.[/quote]

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