[hunson_abadeer]

People in Germany and France buy about as much cheap junk and have about as much attachment to material belongings. Which I don't blame them for, but it's remarkable that in both countries, it's fashionable to pooh-pooh the "dumb Americans" for that.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

Per capita consumer spending, Germany 2021: $21,704

Per capita consumer spending, USA 2021: $47915

[Turing_Machine]

Per capita GDP, Germany 2023: $51,383

Per capita GDP, United States 2023: $80,034

If Germany were a US state, it would rank somewhere between Mississippi and West Virginia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

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

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[benhurmarcel]

Maybe if what you’re measuring leads to believe that Germany is equivalent to Mississippi, you’re measuring the wrong thing.

[anArbitraryOne]

It would be interesting to see the median values of such w/COLA

[orf]

Have you ever been to France or Germany? That’s obviously and clearly very not true.