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by lkbm 3982 days ago
Being number one out of two means you're the majority. Being number one out of over a hundred does not. You claimed that because the US is number one (with 15.6% of world GDP), the other >100 countries (with 84.4% of world GDP) have "zero weight".

"The rest of the world is irrelevant" doesn't go over well and gets downvoted because it's obviously false.

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Is GDP the relevant metric to assess this?

On credit/debit card transaction volume North America represents 40+% of global market.

https://www.capgemini.com/resource-file-access/resource/pdf/...