[Jtsummers]

> Mississippi is richer than Germany and France without progressive social policies.

By what measure? Using GDP Mississippi appears to have a GDP of around $100 billion. France and Germany both have GDPs in the trillions. Normalized by population, both are still larger than Mississippi.

  Mississippi: $105 billion / 2.95 million     = $34.90k/person
  France     : $2.958 trillion / 67.75 million = $43.66k
  Germany    : $4.26 trillion / 83.2 million   = $52.2k

[aapl88889]

Look at the official GDP/capita numbers.

France: 43,658.98

Germany: 51,203.55

Mississippi: 48,744*

I was off on Mississippi but they are still very close to Germany's, which is good considering they are the poorest state in the USA.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

[Jtsummers]

Apparently my source for MS was older (and I mistyped it anyways when calculating, but wouldn't have changed it much compared to using the 2022/2023 numbers). Updating to the 2022 numbers brings it to $47k and 2023 brings it to $48.7k.

So you were half-right, congrats.