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Originally posted by AURaptor:


And yes, I'll dismiss the apples to apples attempted comparison of a country with 5.5 million people to one of some 300 million. Just not an equal or valid side by side, sorry.

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Originally posted by Kirkules:

Any objective look at the numbers clearly shows that the amount of opportunity created by those at the top of your chart is miniscule compared with that created by those at the bottom. If you take the combined GDP of Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway they only add up to about half the GDP of France. France alone created more wealth than four of your top five combined. US GDP is almost twice all countries on the chart combined.
You actually think that 80% of Danes in the service sector make their wealth providing services to the 20% in the remaining sectors. They make their wealth selling wooden shoes from Norway, Candy from Sweden and Lederhosen from Finland to rich Germans tourists.
If you compared those with equal education and skills you would find that workers in US are just as upwardly mobile as those in Denmark. Their small population and homogeneous culture make their population more educated and skilled on average than most other countries. This may make a slanted look at the numbers show more upward mobility, but it actually just shows one of the benefits of a fully assimilated society like we had in the past when people came to the US to become educated Americans. Comparing dependent economies with the diversified, self sustaining economy of the US is just silly in my opinion and shows the statistics of desperation.

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Comparing dependent economies with the diversified, self sustaining economy of the US is just silly in my opinion and shows the statistics of desperation.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:

If we're self-sustaining, why are we borrowing so much money from overseas lenders? Why do we have such a massive trade deficit with China?

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It's not the end. It's a cyclical return to the historical norm.

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that population norm was limited by the disease density relative to the medical practices of the time- Byte.

..we're a pretty new species- DT.

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