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Why don’t you do the computation?

Balancing out taxes are lower and inflation is lower in the US.

Answering your question:

Adjusting by PPP, US is second only to Luxembourg

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income




> Why don’t you do the computation

This was your response to my question about children being shot at school. It's clear we have a very different set of values here in Europe.


In 2024 in America, there have been 133 children killed or injured by gun violence at school. With about 74 million legal children, that’s 0.000798%.

I couldn’t find 2024 statistics, but in 2023 there were 391 gang-related gun deaths in Sweden. With about 10 million people, that’s 0.00391%.

America has gun problems for sure, but school shootings are largely irrelevant compared to deaths from crime and accidents. And it’s not “clear” that you have “a very different set of values” in Europe when we’re discussing a nearly 10 year wave of gun violence in a European country


School shootings are an infinitesimal risk, gun violence in general might be worth pricing into the expected gain of moving into the US though




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