On: Productivity has grown faster in Western Europe th...

[rafaelmn]

Then compare it to EU ... People ragging on US tend to forget that inequality between EU members is larger than US states and they are of comparable size. So much for the egalitarian utopia.

[LeanderK → rafaelmn]

but some of the EU members were literally communist countries not so long ago

[dghughes → LeanderK]

Plus the wars they had to name a few: Balkan, WWI, Spanish Civil War, WWII. Add to that a few dozen other smaller wars. Quite a mess and quite impressive to overcome in such a short time and not hate each other.

[rafaelmn → LeanderK]

>30 years and the disproportionality is pretty consistent.

[Bayart → rafaelmn]

It's really not, the gap has been shrinking.

[ajuc → rafaelmn]

It's not. EE countries were under 30% of EU's PPP GDP per capita, and are over 60% now.

[lesuorac → LeanderK]

Sure and according to the news California still is.